MILNEWS.ca #UKR Update – 161325UTC Nov 14

• More of the latest from Ukraine here and here
• ATO map, 16 Nov 14  (National Security and defense Council of Ukraine)
• ATO map, 13-14 Nov 14  (dragon-first-1.livejournal.com, pro-separatist)
• “Kiev and NATO Signal They Are Ready to Strike Donetsk: Expert”  (sputniknews.com)
• “Is Russia planning a winter offensive?”  (To Inform is to Influence blog)
• “Eyewitness: Murder, Robbery and Rape in Mariupol”  (slavyangrad.org, pro-separatist)
• “Luhansk republic calls on UN, OSCE to stop Kiev’s army”  (ITAR-TASS)
• “The People’s Council and the Federation of Trade Unions of the Luhansk People’s Republic urged the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to put an end to the bloodshed in Eastern Ukraine in the statement, published on their official website ….”  (sputniknews.com)
  
• “President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko had a meeting with Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico. The parties agreed on the broadening of the framework of interaction between the countries. “Slovakia associates itself with Ukraine and will comply with the common position of the EU,” the Prime Minister assured. The President of Ukraine noted: “Solidarity with Ukraine is the issue of values and security, for Ukrainian soldiers are defending today not only Ukraine, but also Slovakia, Germany, Estonia and the entire Europe” ….”  (Press Service of the President of Ukraine)
• “Not the same: Anti-terrorist operations in Ukraine and Russia”  (compares Russian approach in Ukraine, Chechnya; atocrimea.ukrinform.ua, a joint UKR government-media site)
• “During Chechen conflict, Russian federal authorities continued helping its people – Putin”  (ITAR-TASS)
  
• “Poroshenko enacts NSDC decision, proposing Rada cancel law on special order of self-governance in certain districts of Donbas”  (Interfax-Ukraine)
• “Ukraine to close state offices, bank services in rebel-held east”  (Reuters)
• “Head of LNR describes decree on socio-economic blockade of Donbas as act of genocide”  (ITAR-TASS)
• “Ukraine’s president undermines Minsk agreements by his decree on Donbass blockade – DPR”  (ITAR-TASS)
  
• “Harper tells Putin to ‘get out of Ukraine’ in G20 encounter — Russian President complains bitterly of sanctions while world leaders at summit are urging him to alter course on Ukraine ….”
• “Canadian PM to Putin: ‘Get out of Ukraine’ — When Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with Russian President Vladimir Putin Saturday at the G-20 summit in Brisbane, Australia, Harper flatly told Putin “to get out of Ukraine.”….” (Fox News)
  
• “Liberals troubled by renewed Russian aggression in Ukraine, call on Canadian government to join OSCE monitoring mission” (Liberal Party of Canada news release)
• “OSCE introduces best practices of human trafficking prosecution to Ukrainian law enforcers”  (OSCE news release)
  
• “Report from the news bureau of Army of the South-East”  (Novorossia News Agency)
• “Cousin of the actor Dmitriy Duzhev died for Novorossiya, he was a chief of sabotage-reconnaissance group Shaman”  (Novorossia News Agency)
• “Putin wages information war in Ukraine worthy of George Orwell”   (Reuters)
• “Putin’s Disinformation Matrix”  (To Inform is to Influence blog)
• “Russia’s accusations – setting the record straight”  (To Inform is to Influence blog)
• “Russian humanitarian convoy arrives in Lugansk and Donetsk — Representative of the Emergency Situations Ministry Oleg Voronov said the convoy’s 20 trucks had delivered to Lugansk over 100 tonnes of humanitarian aid ….” (ITAR-TASS)
• “74 trucks of cargo convoy, called “humanitarian” in RF, crossed Ukraine border, with no legal ground. No information about content of cargo”  (National Security and defense Council of Ukraine, via Twitter)
• “Malaysian Boeing was downed by a destroyer: the first satellite image was publicized”  (Novorossia News Agency)
• “MH17: Photos of Ukranian fighter jet shooting down plane fake, say commentators — Russian state-controlled TV has broadcast what it called “sensational” photographs, which it said supported Moscow’s theory that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a Ukrainian fighter jet, but several commentators have described them as forgeries ….”
• “Head of DPR says Dutch side responsible for delay of investigation into Boeing crash”  (ITAR-TASS)
  

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