Dmitry Tymchuk: Updates from the ceasefire zone, 9/18

March 3 – 3 Ukrainian military were killed and 9 wounded in the ATO area in the last 24 hours, – said NSDC spokesman Andriy Lysenko.

March 3 – National Regulatory Committee for Energy and Utilities has increased the minimum rate for natural gas used by general public for heating by 3.3 times.

March 3 – President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has urged the EU to refrain from premature optimism and continue to pressure the parties to Minsk agreements in order to implement the latter.

March 3 – Deputy General Prosecutor of Ukraine and Chief Military Prosecutor Anatoliy Matios has announced that 17 thousand deserters from the Armed Forces who evaded military service will be prosecuted.

March 3 – Oblasts of Ukraine where attempts to destabilize the situation are highly possible, remain under control of Security Service of Ukraine (SSU). Russian misinformers are spreading the rumours that Russian terrorist Girkin who started the occupation of Donbas, will soon reappear in Odesa.

March 3 – The price for 1 USD has dropped to 25 UAH.

March 3 – The EU and Russia have agreed to resume a trilateral dialogue on association agreement of Kyiv and Brussels; the date and place of the meeting will soon be agreed upon, – said the Minister for Economic Development Alexei Ulyukayev after a meeting with European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström. I wonder if Ukrainian government officials know about this? Putin has proved his point – both the EU and Ukraine are waiting for his decision.

March 3 – Russia is seriously violating human rights in Crimea and is not adhering to the Minsk agreements which causes a difficult humanitarian situation in Eastern Ukraine. This was stated by the assistant of Ukraine's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Serhiy Kyslytsia in his appearance at the United Nations 28th Session of the Council of Human Rights, informs U.N. news center. According to him, on the Crimean peninsula, there are arrests and persecution of Crimean Tatars going on. He claims that 10,000 Crimean Tatars were forced to leave Crimea and to escape to

Ukraine's mainland. Kyslytsia appealed to the U.N., and in particular, to the U.N.Council on Human Rights "not to permit Russia to trnsform Crimea into an isolated army camp, and its residents into prisoners."

March 2 – 1 Ukrainian military was killed and 4 injured in the ATO area during the last 24 hours, – informed NDSC spokesman Andriy Lysenko.

March 2 – In the last 24 hours Russian terrorists have fired at ATO position 32 times, – said Head of the Press Center of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Vladyslav Seleznyov. ATO spokesman Anatoliy Stelmakh has also stated that the militants used artillery and mortars 14 times (the weapons that should have been withdrawn).

March 2 – President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has requested that the Parliament of Ukraine increases the number of servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to 250 thousand persons.

March 2 – There will be no court hearings regarding Ukrainian MP detained during the mourning rally in Moscow Oleksiy Goncharenko. Russia's Ministry of Interior has said that there will be no further actions regarding the MP.

March 2 – During the day, Russian troops showcase the withdrawal of their military equipment and at night they return it to previous positions. "Wherever you see militants withdrawing heavy equipment, they are only implementing relocation or plan attacks, or return the equipment to the same site at night", – said NDSC spokesman Andriy Lysenko.

March 2 – Ukrainian citizen Anna Durytska, who was with Boris Nemtsov when he died, is unable to leave Russia.

March 2 – German doctors examined Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko and have identified March 6-8th as a "point of no return", – informed her lawyer Mykola Polozov. What will follow is her death and Putin's congratulations on International Women's Day...

March 2 – Russian soldier Dorzhy Baltomunkuyev from the capital of Buriatiya in Siberia, Ulan Ude, related how Russia "masks" its soldiers as "civil guardsmen": "Here only those who had signed a contract with the Russian Army were sent; and I came to Rostov as a soldier for a limited time. However, being on a contract, I had wonderful results – whether on the rifle or physical ability. They took me into the army in Chyt; there in Chyt, I went through the preparation training and I decided to remain on contract with the army division Ulan-Ude," he related.

Right now Batomunkuyev lies, overall burned, after his tank was shot at by Ukrainian forces near Debaltseve in Lonhvynove village.

According to Batomunkuyev, Russia sends its soldiers from units together with weapons: "We painted the tanks still in Ulan-Ude. Right there, on the railroad depot. We painted over the numbers; some of the tanks had Guard insignia – it was also painted over. Chevrons and stripes -we took off in Ukraine, when we got to the poligon. All are taken off – purposefully to masquerade. We left the passport in the army unit, the army ticket in the poligon," he described.

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March 18 – Ukraine collected materials to submit a second statement to the Internartional Criminal Court in Gaaza on the statements of Russian President Volodymyr Putin and the Minister of Defense Shoyha regarding Crimea.

This was stated by the Minister of Justice Petro Petrenko at a briefing on Wednesday informed Interfax-Ukraine.

"Also an expert opinion was carried out regarding the statementd of citizen Putin and citizen Shoyha in the film which was shown in Russia on the annexation of Crimea; these materials have been gathered and are submitted to the General Prosecutor and they will coordinate it with the international prosecutors of the given court," he stated.

Petrenko clarified that the court being referred to is the International Criminal Court in Gaaza.

March 17 – 3 Ukrainian military were killed in the ATO area in the last 24 hours, informed NSDC spokesman Andriy Lysenko. Russian style ceasefire is killing Ukrainian military.

March 17 – Russia is relocating strategic distant bombers Tu-22M3 to Crimea and tactical missile systems "Iskander" to Kaliningrad region – these activities are disguised as training. The EU and NATO have turned a blind eye, of course. Not to mention a permanently "blind" OSCE mission.

March 17 – Approximately 6000 pro-Russian militants who have at powerful and long-range weapons at their disposal are located in the area of Horlivka- Yenakiieve-Debaltseve. Meanwhile Ukraine is withdrawing its heavy weapons from this area.

March 17 – A list of villages/cities subject to law on special local government status in Donbas has been published on the website of Ukrainian Parliament (these are territories, which have been occupied by the Russians and separatists).

March 17 – Russian invaders have again moved further into parts of Luhansk oblast, controlled by Ukraine in Stanytsya Luhanska, informed the Head of Luhansk Regional State Administration Hennadiy Moskal.

March 17 – Europe does not have a clear strong direction regarding the threat from the side of Russia, which has to be answered with force. This was stated by Poland's ex-president, Lech Walensa in an interview for TVN24. "If Russia will risk to attack Poland and other countries, then it will collapse. I see that which will happen with Russia. Of course, a million, 10 million people will die, and it would be better if that did not happen," Walensa stared in creating the scenario of a possible future war. Walensa believes that "Russia is some 30-50 years behind both in the awareness as well as in the structure of organizing a state, and therefore they are utilizing methods that have long ago been laid to rest in the past." "Putin began a war with the whole developed world. He broke pacts, agreements, guarantees. The world cannot just simply leave it as is. If something similiar happens, the only thing left is force. How can one play here, how can one win, when he is boxing, and we are playing chess," he stated. Valensa believes that the Polish people "are in safety", belonging to the structures of NATO and EU, and not having in their country a substantial number of Russian minority, which, for example, the Baltic countries have.

And if Putin attacks Lithuania or Denmark – because he may consider it neccessary to study "the corridor to Kaliningrad or to the Atlantic Ocean" – then what next?

March 16 – "Since the ceasefire came into effect, the separatists have breached the truce at least 1,100 times. Therefore, I can say that the ceasefire is broken," Poroshenko told the Bild at the start of a two-day visit to Berlin where he would meet German chancellor Angela Merkel. He also called for more sanctions on Russia in order to put more pressure on Russia over the war in eastern Ukraine.

March 16 – Germany's goal remains to restore the Crimean Peninsula to Ukraine, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on March 16, a year after Crimea's annexation by Russian forces.

March 16 – Russia is not ready to restructure Ukraine's debt and expects Ukraine to repay the money it owes in December – Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov

March 16 – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the European Union would consider imposing further sanctions on Russia at a summit this week if there's a major violation of the cease-fire in eastern Ukraine.

March 16 – Russian-led insurgents in Donbas threaten with new attacks, Russia continues sending weapons – military spokesman Lysenko.

March 16 – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko expects that the European Union will announce that a visa-free regime will be granted to Ukraine at the Eastern Partnership summit in Riga on May 21-22.

March 16 – Volodymyr Putin gave the order to bring the Northern Fleet, separate units of the Western Military District and the Air Attack paratroops in their full combat readiness due to a sudden inspection. This was stated by the RF Minister of Defense, Serhiy Shoyha, in the National Center of the Management of Depense, informed Interfax. To the sudden inspection of combat readiness of the Northern Fleet, units of ZVO and PDV there were ncluded 38,000 soldiers, 3,360 units of armed equipment, 41 ships, 15 underground submarines, 110 planes and helicopters, clarified Shoyha. The inspection began at 8 AM in the morning according to Moscow time.

Oh God, how this Putin with his child's play of solldiers has milked the whole world! However, it is a pity, that these games of his are accomppanied by thousands of deaths. And there is no end in sight for this madness...

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