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Mariya Zakharova, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MID) press official, said that journalists from leading American media outlets working in Russia refused to interview Ukrainian soldiers who crossed the border into Russia asking for asylum earlier in the week. Early Monday morning, a group of 438 Ukrainian troops and border guards from junta forces fighting opolchenie in Novorossiya asked the FSB Border Guard for permission to enter Russia seeking asylum, and the authorities opened a humanitarian corridor for them. As the news broke on Monday about the Ukrainian soldiers crossing into Russia seeking asylum, the MID decided to arrange for foreign journalists accredited in Russia to meet with the soldiers.
Zakharova said, “Keeping in mind how important it’d be for journalists, particularly foreign ones, to talk to Ukrainian military servicemen, to learn first-hand about real combat actions, the motivation of Ukrainian soldiers, and the real reasons behind their decision [to seek asylum], we decided to invite a group of foreign correspondents to Rostov Oblast. On Monday, the Minoborony made an aircraft available to fly to Rostov Oblast, where the Ukrainian soldiers were temporary sheltered, and the plane was ready to take a group of between 30 and 40 journalists. We immediately started calling everyone. We gathered up 40 [correspondents] within an hour”.
However, Zakharova said that only the Bloomberg news agency sent someone in the group; the rest of the American journalists decided to decline the MID’s invitation. She said, “Except for Bloomberg, there were no journalists representing the American media!!! Here’s an opportunity to meet with Ukrainian military servicemen who crossed into Russian territory, and the representatives of leading US media turned it down, including CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Christian Science Monitor. What will these journalists base their materials upon if they decline talking to first-hand sources? The funniest episode was with a Reuters journalist, who registered, left for the airport, but changed his mind half-way there and didn’t go on the flight. They criticise Russia for not having enough interaction with Western media and it’s allegedly the reason for Russia’s media blackout, but the fact is that we speak and they either refuse to listen or they’re prohibited from listening”.
The Ukrainian troops who laid down arms and crossed into Russia are in a tent camp near the Gukovo border checkpoint in Rostov Oblast. The soldiers expressed surprise at their good treatment in Russia, as, according to them, the news put out by the Kiev junta media was in sharp contrast to the reality that they saw. One told LifeNews, “We could have a bath and received new clothes. We’re very grateful. Before we crossed the border, they’d told us that Russia was an ‘aggressor country’ engaged in combat operations against us, but now we found out that it wasn’t true”.
6 August 2014
ITAR-TASS
Junta Pigs Destroy Church with Indiscriminate Shelling in Gorlovka
Tags: Christian, Christianity, civil unrest, Eastern Orthodox Church, Gorlovka, Moscow Patriarchate, Novorossiya, Orthodox, Orthodoxy, political commentary, politics, Religion, Religion and Spirituality, Russia, Russian, Russian Orthodox Church, Ukraine, Ukrainian Civil War, war and conflict
Annunciation parish in Gorlovka (Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR), Union of People’s Republics of Novorossiya) in happier times
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Editor:
This consecration of this church was on 12 June… less than two months ago. The junta pigs don’t care what they destroy. The Galician Uniates are ravening beasts, only fit for death or exile. I shall speak bluntly… the bulk of the Galician Uniates remain silent as their hierarchy and clergy bless the destruction of Orthodox churches and the killing of Orthodox priests. This is too much of a muchness. I have nothing but contempt for all UGKTs and Ukrainian Orthodox institutions and clergy… they have blood on their hands and they’re unrepentant. As for “Byzantine Catholics”, I’d say, “It’s time to come home to Orthodoxy… otherwise, you get lumped in with the UGKTs fascists. Think on it…”
Here is a report on the consecration of this church…
BMD
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A direct hit by a junta artillery shell caused a fire that destroyed the wooden Annunciation Church in Gorlovka. The Diocese of Gorlovka and Slavyansk of the UPTs/MP put this report on their website. No church employees died, but there were a few more fires in the Stroitel neighbourhood.
7 August 2014
Novorusinform
http://www.novorosinform.org/news/id/5390
Editor:
WATCH THE VIDEO. This is what the junta pigs want to do to all Orthodox in the Ukraine… this is what the UGKTs blesses. This is why I despise Victor Potapov and his “political correctness”… this is why I despise Vassa Larina for her sucking up to the phoney Jesuit “Archimandrite” Bob Taft… this is why I despise Sophia Kishkovsky for being part of the media apparat that cheers on the junta… this is why I despise John Jillions for being a defender of the Uniate pigs… this is why I despise Paffhausen for brown-nosing the K Street crowd… this is why I despise Freddy M-G for her flippant semi-Anglican indifferentism… this is why I despise Rod Dreher for his ignorant support of the worst people in diaspora Orthodoxy. We have traitors in our midst.
Our compatriots bleed… their churches burn… but these “worthies” consort with our enemies willingly, with malice aforethought, and without shame… why, they stuck in their thumbs and pulled out some plums… boy, what wonderful “tolerant” “religious” people they are! I’ve gotta walk away from this shit… I know that the world can be crank and there are evil mercenary people in the world, but this is too much… it makes one doubt the truth of religion… it makes unbelief look decent and humane. I’m not going to leave, but I can see why people do leave… the people named are Satan’s own in their absorption in their little First Family world (the rest of us don’t even count in their estimation… they’re THE CHURCH, dontcha know). As I said, I gotta walk away from this shit…
BMD