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On Tuesday evening, citing the Lugansk People’s Republic (LNR) media centre, the website Vgorode reported that active hostilities temporarily ceased near Shastye, “Representatives of the Army of the Southeast made a truce with the ‘National Guard’ (sic)”. LNR spokesman Oksana Chigrina said, “A truce has been in effect for some time. We don’t know how long it will be for, but during this time the two sides will remove wounded and dead soldiers”.
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ITAR-TASS reported that all-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK) confirmed the death of journalist Igor Kornelyuk near Lugansk. “The VGTRK reporter wounded in a shelling near Lugansk has died”. VGTRK noted that cameraman Viktor Denisov, who worked with Kornelyuk, is alive. Kornelyuk was 37, he was born in Zaporozhye Oblast in the Ukraine. Chairman of the RF Government Dmitri Medvedev said on Facebook, “Those who call themselves the authorities of the Ukraine are to blame for the death of Russian journalist Igor Kornelyuk”.
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On Wednesday, a opolchenie spokesman told ITAR-TASS that junta forces shelled opolchenie positions and residential areas in Kramatorsk, saying, “From near the Konditsioner (air conditioner) plant area, the enemy fired grenade-launchers at a opolchenie position. Several projectiles hit a residential building. The firing resulted in nine people seriously wounded, and eleven lightly wounded. It’s possible that some people died. However, I lack exact information on that score so far”.
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Viktor Bugaichuk, head of the Poltava Oblast OGA*, said in an interview with 5th Channel TV that the wrecked section of the Russian-Ukrainian Urengoy-Pomary-Užgorod gas pipeline had been in critical condition, saying, “Two years ago, pipeline engineers informed Naftogaz about the critical condition of the gas pipe. This section of the pipeline had 11 patches. However, Naftogaz refused to budget funds for repair. The depressurisation of the gas pipe could have come from ground cave-in”. Depressurisation of gas main triggered a fire at 14.20 local time on Tuesday in Lokhvitsy Raion of Poltava Oblast. The flame was 100 metres (330 feet) high. The fire injured no one. Ukrtransgaz noted that they sealed off the damaged section of the pipeline urgently at gas compression stations, “We sealed off a gas pipeline section of around 20 kilometres. We shifted the gas flow to a parallel branch of the pipeline. The gas pipeline explosion hadn’t affected gas transit to Europe”.
*OGA: Oblast State Administration
Editor:
The pipeline repairs received no funding as the Ukrainian oligarchs needed the money for their villas and foreign cars. ‘Nuff said… the so-called “Ukrainian” state has always been a legal fiction and a joke… it’s been WORSE than all the most jaundiced and bigoted Khokhol jokes out there. It’s been a Uniate Nationalist Hell. It’s time for this unthrifty beast to be put down… and quickly.
BMD
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On Wednesday morning, Interfax reported that miners gathered in Donetsk to protest against the junta repressions in the Donbass. The demonstration took place near the monument to Nazi victims on Leninsky Avenue. More than 1,000 workers from the Kalinin, Skochynskiy, and Abakumov mines took part participating in the action. The miners chanted, “Donetsk Republic!”, “Russia!” and “We are the Donbass”. Rain didn’t deter them from marching from the monument to Lenin Square. Reinforced police patrols and traffic police provided security for the protestors. The authorities suspended traffic on Leninsky Avenue during the march.
Editor:
Note well that the patriots DEFEND the memorials to Nazi victims whilst the Uniate filth want to DESTROY them. I need say nothing more. If you defend the Unia and its evil actions, you defend Nazism in all of its repulsive manifestations, and nothing else need be said of you.
BMD
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On Wednesday, the LNR media centre said that the opolchenie and junta forces started to take away the bodies of fighters killed during Kiev’s attempted repression in Novorossiya. There is a temporary ceasefire between the warring sides to remove the dead, proposed by the Ukrainian side. Eyewitnesses said that they brought about 100 coffins to a building under junta control. The junta has already taken away all its dead servicemen. LNR delegates are getting ready to go to Schastye, where the second part of the removal will take place. The LNR media centre warned, “Despite the ceasefire accord, we have absolutely no confidence in the Ukrainian side, they may open fire. Journalists intending to cover the event should be aware of the possible danger”.
Editor:
Of course, the Uniates open fire… they’ve been treacherous ever since 1596. That’s what apostasy does to an organisation. You trust the Unia at your own peril. Do note that the innocent majority of Uniates refuse to condemn the manifest evil done by their bishops, priests, and leading elements. Do have a care around them.
BMD
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Russian Gosduma Deputy Vadim Solovyov told ITAR-TASS, citing Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, that the Russian Armed Forces are ready for anything in the Ukraine. On Wednesday, General Shoigu spoke at the RF Gosduma at the Government Hour debates held behind closed doors. Solovyov, a member of the KPRF faction, said, “Shoigu said that we were ready for any development of the Ukrainian situation, but first everything depends on our Western partners’ stance. The army is ready to fulfil any task set it by the commander-in-chief”.
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Hal Foster wrote in USA Today that whilst some residents of Odessa believe that the Kiev junta is responsible for the Dom Profsoyuzov tragedy on 2 May, which led to the deaths of at least 48 peaceful pro-Russian protesters, others believe that the USA is to blame. Having visited the massacre site when family and friends were holding a memorial observance for the victims and interviewed some of them, Mr Foster noted that many of them, especially women, expressed extreme hostility toward the USA. He remarked, “I’ve met hundreds of pro-Russian Ukrainians over the past 12 years. A handful seemed wary because I was American, but most were friendly. I never met outright hostility until this day”. One of the women interviewed by Foster said, “This was the hand of your president. Tell Obama that the Ukraine isn’t Iraq or Yugoslavia. Our children are dying”. Overall, out of eight people the journalist had managed to interview, seven believed that the USA was stoking the conflict. Mr Foster wrote, “I walked away concluding that the USA has a lot of work to do to win the hearts and minds of the millions of pro-Russians in the Ukraine”.
Editor:
Of course, one reason the “pro-Russian” people are so vehement is that they’re RUSSIAN… NOT “Ukrainian”. “Ukrainian” is a disgusting fiction. The people in the Crimea and Novorossiya are Russian, those in Malorossiya are Little Russians who speak Surzhik, and the po-nashemu people in Podkarpatskaya Rus don’t speak “Ukrainian”… only the Galician Uniate hillbillies in the Lvovshchina speak “Ukrainian” (a heavily-Polonised version of Western Russian dialects… anyone who uses “Pan” is overly-Polonised, as any good Russian knows).
BMD
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On Wednesday, a government source told Interfax, “To date, some 13,480 people have remained in border areas in central and southern Russia, as well as in Crimea and Sevastopol, after being forced to leave the southeastern Ukraine because of the hostilities. More than 6,200 of them are children. Nearly 1,000 refugees needed psychological help, and yet another 500 needed medical aid upon arriving in Russia. Over 5,000 refugees are in temporary accommodation centres and over 8,000 people are staying with friends and relatives”.
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On Wednesday, Miroslav Rudenko, a Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) spokesman, told Interfax that the DNR rejected a proposal by P A Poroshenko for the opolchenie in Novorossiya to lay down their arms, saying, “Poroshenko’s proposal to surrender arms is simply a tactical trick. If people give in to it, a new purge would begin. We won’t surrender our arms. Why should we lay down our arms? We no longer believe Poroshenko, because fierce shelling of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, and later of Amvrosiyevka, where there were no opolchenie, followed his announcement of a peaceful resolution to the conflict. The last 24 hours saw fierce fighting in Kramatorsk, with about a dozen civilians injured, a whole street destroyed, and a five-storey building partly destroyed”.
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On Wednesday evening, a LNR source told Interfax that the truce between junta forces and the opolchenie is over, and the junta again started operations in a Lugansk suburb, saying, “We’re still picking up the bodies of our boys in Schastye, but at the same time it emerged that the enemy is advancing again. Still, as soon as the truce began in Schastye, [the junta forces] started shelling Metallist with mortars”.
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On Wednesday, Interfax reported that Lvov Oblast Genprokurator Vladimir Gural told a press conference that most of the weapons stolen in February 2014 from Lvov police stocks are still not accounted for and remain in unauthorised hands, saying, “To date, most of the stolen weapons are still in unauthorised hands. Police aren’t enforcing the return of the weapons. People voluntarily brought in those weapons returned to the police. Lvov Oblast police aren’t doing anything to recover weapons, despite the Genprokuratura repeatedly telling senior police officers that recovering the stolen weapons are a top priority”. According to the former Lvov Oblast police chief, Aleksandr Rudyak, on 18-19 February, unknown parties stole over 1,150 firearms from the Lvov police. Later, Yuri Gladun, the Lvov Oblast police chief of staff, said that thieves stole 935 firearms, 617 of which were never returned.
Editor:
Russians in Novorossiya can’t have arms, but Uniate pigs in Galicia… no problem! Big deal! “A knife for the Moskali!” This is why the Russian patriots won’t disarm… the Uniate pigs have guns and are ready to use them. They were murderers for the Poles, they were murderers for the Habsburgs, they were murderers for the Nazis, and they’re murderers for the Americans now. You can see a pattern. The Unia’s been crank from the git-go.
BMD
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On Wednesday, Valery Bolotov, the head of the LNR, told reporters that the LNR is creating its own KGB and counterintelligence under the name of “SMERSH”. SMERSH (short for “Death to Spies”) was the name of the Soviet counterintelligence agency in the VOV. Bolotov said, “Starting today, we’re to form a LNR KGB. One of its departments will be SMERSH, with responsibilities for counterespionage and countersabotage activities. It’d participate in the search for the parties responsible for the deaths of Russian journalists”.
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On Wednesday, ITAR-TASS reported that DNR Deputy Coal Industry Minister Konstantin Kuznetsov said, “The people of the DNR will fight. First of all, the foreign enemy, then, the oligarchs’ turn will come. The miners gave the junta two days to stop their so-called antiterrorism operation. If that doesn’t happen, they’ll take up arms and defend their land, wives, and children”. Aleksandr Borodai, the Chairman of the DNR Government, told ITAR-TASS, “Now, it’s absolutely clear to everyone in the DNR that the Nazi junta is carrying out genocide under the guise of an antiterrorism operation. This is a patriotic war for us”. On Wednesday, a rally against the junta repression took place in Donetsk. The event gathered 5,000-10,000 miners from Donetsk, Gorlovka, Yenakiyevo, Snezhnoye, and Torez.
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On Wednesday, Aleksandr Borodai, the Chairman of the DNR Government, told ITAR-TASS, “Poroshenko’s statement is absurd. He says that he’s stepping up his military operation now and mopping up the border, after which our opolchenie must disarm unilaterally and unconditionally. It’s really strange that Poroshenko didn’t mention one more thing right away, namely, that after their disarmament the DNR opolchenie would have to go to Ukrainian filtration camps. Unlike Poroshenko, who proposes unconditional surrender, the DNR has only one condition, namely, an immediate pullout of the Ukrainian occupation army from our republic. One thing we’ve realised quite clearly is that Kiev’s declarations have no credibility. For instance, so-called ‘Interior Minister’ Arseny Avakov earlier proposed personally to sign a ceasefire agreement, but he reneged on it later. The shelling of Slavyansk from heavy guns and Grad multiple launch systems began just a few hours after that”.
Editor:
Poroshenko wants the Russian Orthodox patriots to disarm and place themselves in the power of thuggish Uniate terrorists… it ain’t gonna happen. This play has to work itself out to the end… and it’s nowhere near that point yet. Much blood lies in the soil… much more will join it. The Americans and their Uniate/schismatical dogs started this… where it’ll end, no one knows. America will pay dearly for opening up this particular can o’ worms. It intended to weaken Russia… it may indeed do the exact opposite.
BMD
18 June 2014
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On Wednesday, Valery Bolotov, the head of the LNR, announced today at a press conference that the junta forces held some of the bodies of dead opolchenie for ransom, saying, “They demanded 5,000 USD (171,000 Roubles. 5,400 CAD. 5,300 AUD. 3,670 Euros. 2,940 UK Pounds) for each victim. The Ukrainian side breached a temporary cease-fire agreement reached to remove the dead and wounded. They fired on our positions with mortars and artillery. However, we fully complied with the agreement allowing us to pick up our dead. Kiev didn’t announce a ceasefire. They requested a halt to firing to take out the wounded and the dead. Our opolchenie took the bodies of nine dead soldiers and rescued twelve wounded, but the Ukrainian side had more than 100 killed near Metallist, not counting those at the airport. Another point that the Ukrainian side violated was the agreement to suspend movement of armoured columns. Their forces continued to move Grads, armoured vehicles, and heavy artillery towards Schastye”.
Editor:
The junta forces are mostly untrained Galician Uniate fanatics… who find that the only way that they can assault opolchenie improved positions is via frontal attacks. The butcher’s bill for that sort of thing is huge. The opolchenie seem to be using the same sort of tactics that the Iraqis used successfully in the Iran-Iraq War… that is, fortified positions with all-around arcs of fire. That is, they can “allow” the Galicians to “overrun” them, allowing them to engage the enemy with flanking fire. In short, the Galician officers are incompetents, chosen for political reliability, not military skill… the units have fanatic “morale instructors” (commissars)… and the troops lack training and discipline. It’s a recipe for spectacular failure.
BMD
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The US Agency for International Development (USAID) claimed that it’d allot 10 million USD (342 million Roubles. 10.8 million CAD. 10.6 million AUD. 7.34 million Euros. 5.88 million UK Pounds) to the Ukraine to fight corruption. The news came during the visit of USAID head Rajiv Shah in Kiev. A USAID statement said, “The support will include the measures to extend responsibility of officials, a fair and transparent judicial system, publication of federal contracts, and regulating the energy domain”. For the last 20 years, USAID allotted 2 billion USD (68.4 billion Roubles. 2.16 billion CAD. 2.12 billion AUD. 1.468 billion Euros. 1.176 billion UK Pounds) to the Ukraine for “strengthening the economy, democracy, and civil society.” This year, USAID provided the Ukraine with 1 billion USD (34.2 billion Roubles. 1.08 billion CAD. 1.06 billion AUD. 734 million Euros. 588 million UK Pounds) and financed the 25 May presidential election.
Editor:
That means that USAID money went to subsidise the Uniate thugs who beat up Tsaryov and Simonenko. There’s no way around it. It means that the USA financed an election that even Hudson County in Jersey would call crooked (it had as much suspense as a local election here in Albany NY has… the old O’Connell machine still chugs along, and it keeps on ticking, never getting a licking). As for 10 mill… that’ll last the corrupt pols in Kiev for less than a week…
BMD
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On Thursday, junta forces shelled Resurrection Church in Slavyansk, killing a man guarding the church. The shelling smashed five windows, damaged the church’s façade, and destroyed the fence around the property. Fr Nikolai Fomenko said, “Shelling against the city started from Karachun Hill at 06.00 today. The gunfire continued for half an hour. This time, it targeted Resurrection Church. The projectiles landed just outside of it, with one of them passing half-a-metre from the dome, another one exploding near the church compound, on the road, and the third one destroying the central gas mains near the lake. The shelling destroyed the southern façade of the church, but the building itself survived the attack. The most terrible thing that happened is that the shelling killed the man guarding the church. He was on his way to open the gates when he suffered a head wound. We rushed him to hospital, but doctors were unable to save his life. Let’s pray for the recently deceased Aleksandr”.
Resurrection Church dates from the 18th century. St Ioann Kronshtadtsky once lived and conducted religious services there. The Church of St Serafim Sarovsky, in Cherepkovka near Slavyansk, came under fire early on Monday morning, when several projectiles hit the yard of the church, completely destroying its chapel and refectory. In late May, a mortar shell exploded just ten metres (@33 feet) from the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God “the Sovereign” in Slavyansk.
Editor:
The Uniates deliberately target Orthodox churches. My information has it that Uniate fascists bombed four Orthodox churches over and above those named above. That means that people such as Freddie M-G, JP, and Vassa Larina who coddle Uniates are the enemies of Christ’s Church… full stop. It’s a war to the finish… something that the zapadniki don’t “get”. Yes, oppose the Unia with all your might… but don’t hate. Otherwise, you fall into the same pit that the Uniates are in. Have a care.
BMD
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On Thursday, a local opolchenie HQ source told Interfax that an intense military operation is underway in Artemovsk, saying, “Zakatnoye, Seversk, and the outskirts of Artemovsk came under fire, and opolchenie fired in response. Fierce fighting is underway, enemy forces use heavy equipment. A Su-25 fighter-bomber that struck Seversk was hit by opolchenie AA fire, but it managed to fly off”.
19 June 2014
Voice of Russia World Service
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_18/Ukraines-authorities-are-to-blame-for-Russian-reporters-death-Russian-PM-3699/
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_18/Temporary-truce-is-announced-under-Lugansk-in-Ukraine-2087/
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_18/Gunfire-at-residential-sector-in-Kramatorsk-20-people-wounded-9930/
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_18/Blasted-section-of-Russian-Ukrainian-gas-pipeline-in-emergency-condition-3575/
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_18/Thousands-Donetsk-miners-protest-against-punitive-operation-in-Ukraines-southeast-4897/
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_18/Lugansk-self-defense-Kiev-military-exchange-dead-fighters-4572/
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_18/Russian-Armed-Forces-ready-for-any-scenario-in-Ukraine-DM-6515/
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_18/Many-Ukrainians-blame-US-for-May-2-Odessa-atrocity-US-media-2143/
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_18/Almost-14-000-people-from-Ukraines-southeast-find-asylum-in-Russia-5178/
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_18/Poroshenkos-offer-to-surrender-arms-is-a-tactical-trick-Donetsk-Peoples-Republic-2133/
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_18/Kiev-forces-bomb-village-after-declaring-truce-Lugansk-Peoples-Republic-1410/
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_18/Stolen-weapons-in-Lvov-still-in-hands-of-civilians-Ukrainan-regional-prosecutor-1202/
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_18/Lugansk-People-s-Republic-is-to-create-its-own-KGB-and-counterintelligence-agency-8695/
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_18/Donetsk-miners-threaten-to-take-arms-if-Kiev-continues-military-operation-5942/
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_18/Spokesman-for-Donetsk-Republic-dismisses-Poroshenkos-statement-as-absurd-8438/
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_19/During-exchange-of-dead-Ukrainian-side-demanded-ransom-for-militias-leader-of-LPR-9177/
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_19/US-to-fork-over-10-mln-to-Ukraine-to-combat-corruption-9857/
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_19/Ukraine-govt-forces-open-fire-on-Slavyansk-church-one-person-killed-9405/
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_19/Ukraines-army-using-Su-25-fighter-bombers-as-heavy-fighting-in-Artemovsk-underway-Donetsk-militia-5808/
Voices from Russia 
Orthodox Church Organises Humanitarian Aid for Novorossiya… South Ossetia to Recognise LNR… Refugees Receive Housing in Rostov Oblast
Tags: Christian, Christianity, Donetsk People's Republic, Eastern Orthodox Church, Leonid Tibilov, Lugansk People's Republic, Moscow Patriarchate, Novorossiya, Orthodox, Orthodoxy, political commentary, politics, Religion, Religion and Spirituality, Rostov Oblast, Russia, Russian, Russian Orthodox Church, South Ossetia, Ukraine, Veronika Skvortsova, Vladimir Puchkov
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On Thursday, ITAR-TASS reported that Moscow-based Christian organizations set up centres to collect humanitarian aid for Novorossiya. They’re gathering clothes and surgical dressings. The Russian Orthodox Church jointly with the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (IPPO) opened a centre for humanitarian aid in Moscow’s Novospassky Monastery (New Monastery of the Saviour). IPPO Deputy Chairman Yelena Amazona said, “Three tonnes of humanitarian aid are ready for departure because the facility is full up. People also provide money. Yesterday, a woman gave 50,000 roubles (1,450 USD. 1,580 CAD. 1,550 AUD. 1,070 Euros. 850 UK Pounds). People also volunteer to put up refugee families. However, Ukrainians prefer centralised accommodation in recreation facilities because they receive refugee status, jobs, and food. We’re sending clothes and food to the children’s camp in Orlov Raion in Oryol Oblast”.
On Wednesday, Vladimir Puchkov, Minister of Emergencies Situations, said, “More than 200 temporary camps for Ukrainian refugees with meals sites, medical services, and immigration points are now ready in Russian regions bordering the Ukraine. More than 13,500 refugees from southeast Ukraine, including more than 6,200 children, are staying in Russia”. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the refugee flow will increase if the junta introduces “martial law” in Novorossiya, saying that such plans would lessen restraints on junta forces. The Federal Migration Service said that some 4,000 people have already asked for refugee status. As many as 3,630 refugees, most of them in Rostov Oblast, are in the southern region. About 1,400 refugees came to central Russia and 1,460 people in the Republic of the Crimea.
As many as 370 people, including 111 yesterday alone, are on the migration register in Vladimir Oblast since early June. On Wednesday, the first 79 refugees came to the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. As many as 200 Ukrainians arrived in Voronezh Oblast over the last two days. Twelve migrants went as far as Khabarovsk Krai in the Russian Far East. 640 Ukrainians turned for aid in Astrakhan Oblast and the authorities created 100 new jobs for them in the region. The Tula Oblast OGA* stated they’re prepared to receive 5,000 refugees. A second station for collecting humanitarian aid opened in Yaroslavl. Samara Oblast created an emergency aid headquarters for refugees. Other neighbouring Russian federal subjects, particularly Stavropol Krai, are ready to help refugees. For instance, Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Khloponin instructed acting Stavropol Krai Governor Vladimir Vladimirov to provide 2,000-3,000 jobs for refugees. President V V Putin pledged give all aid necessary to refugees from Novorossiya.
*OGA: Oblast State Administration
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On Thursday, Interfax reported that Valery Bolotov, the head of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LNR), told a press conference that the LNR shall establish diplomatic relations with South Ossetia, saying, “We’re launching negotiations regarding diplomatic relations with South Ossetia; we’re about to draw up the applicable documents”. On Wednesday, Presidential Press Secretary Gana Yanovskaya told Interfax that South Ossetian President Leonid Tibilov signed a decree to recognise the LNR’s independence. She said that an appeal of the South Ossetian parliament to recognise the LNR was the basis of the decree. In addition, Tibilov ordered his Foreign Ministry to work on establishing diplomatic relations with the LNR and draw up the relevant paperwork. South Ossetia has recognition from Russia, Nicaragua, Colombia, Nauru, and Vanuatu.
Editor:
This is IMPORTANT… it’s a backhand recognition of the LNR by Russia. This means that Russia implicitly supports the LNR and Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) leaving the moribund “Ukrainian” state. Let’s not be coy… by doing this, Russia implicitly lays claim to all of Novorossiya… the Vatican and the Phanar understand this, even if Washington doesn’t.
BMD
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On Thursday, Valery Bolotov, the head of the LNR, told a press conference that doctors found a sniper’s bullet in the body of one of the Russian journalists killed near Lugansk on 17 June, saying, “We found a sniper’s bullet in the body of one of the journalists. The story that the opolchenie caused their death is yet another lie of the Ukrainian authorities”.
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On Thursday, Vladimir Rogov, leader of the Donbas Slavic Guard in the DNR, told Interfax, “We plan to create a tribunal, we hope that we can prosecute the people who seized power in Kiev and let the bloodshed happen. The tribunal’s decisions would be in accord with the DNR Criminal Code, and we plan to pick judges from people who have law degrees in law. By no means would it be a kangaroo court, it’d be a real jury trial”.
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On Thursday, Interfax reported that Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova told journalists, “We’re providing full assistance, including medical points in temporary accommodation facilities. Every temporary accommodation facility has a medical point where refugees can see a doctor and get medication. Some 1,300 people, including 68 pregnant women, have sought medical assistance. Some 130 people are receiving treatment in hospital. I plan to visit Rostov Oblast next week to personally control the provisions of medical assistance for refugees”.
RF Presidential Administration Chief Sergei Ivanov visited the Pioner children’s camp in Rostov Oblast, where there’s a temporary refugee accommodation facility. The people there said that they hope that the situation would normalise soon so that they could go home. He told refugee mothers with their children, “We’ll do that the authorities will make plans for when it gets colder. Honestly, I can’t promise to you that everything will calm down. We’ll have to think of how to continue helping you. It’s warm now, but we’ll have to look for other facilities in future”.
Svetlana Dobrovolskaya, director of the camp, told Ivanov that 229 people, including 151 children aged from four months to 16, are now at the Pioner camp. The local employment centre assured Ivanov that they’d be ready to put refugee children in schools in Rostov Oblast. The school in Primorka, the site of the temporary centre, has up to 600 vacant spaces.
19 June 2014
Voice of Russia World Service
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_19/Christian-organizations-set-up-center-for-humanitarian-aid-to-Ukraines-southeast-4100/
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_19/Lugansk-launching-negotiations-to-establish-diplomatic-relations-with-S-Ossetia-9825/
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_19/LPR-leader-says-snipers-bullet-found-in-body-of-one-of-killed-Russian-journalists-8978/
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_19/Donetsk-intends-to-form-its-own-tribunal-7867/
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_19/Ukrainian-refugees-receiving-all-necessary-medical-assistance-Russian-Health-Ministry-7266/