MILNEWS.ca #UKR Update – 271300UTC June 2015

• More of the latest from Ukraine here and here

Eye Catchers

• “Ukrainian and Canadian Defence Ministers discuss joint exercise” – “President of Ukraine, Defense Minister of Canada discuss defense cooperation” – “Ukrainian and Canadian Ministers of Defence hold talks” – “Arseniy Yatsenyuk met with Canadian Minister of National Defense and for Multiculturalism Jason Kenney”
• “Terrorists intensified attacks at Mariupol”
• “Poroshenko prepared for Minsk-3” (in Russian)

Updates

• UKR govt ATO map, 27 June 2015
• “Summary MO DPR on June 27”  (in Russian) – “Summary of (DPR’s) Edward Basurina June 27, 2015” (in Russian)
• “Kiev’s military violate ceasefire twice over past 24 hours — Luhansk militia” – “Terrorists still use forbidden weapons” – “Pro-Russian terrorists continue to attack Ukrainian villages near Lugansk, few houses got burnt and one civilian killed last night.” – “DPR reconnaissance teams registered deployment of Ukrainian MRLS “Grad” and “Uragan” in Kurakhovo – Basurin” – “DPR reconnaisance documents transfer of Ukrainian “Grad” and “Hurricane” to Kurakhovo – Basurin” (in Russian) – “Militants do not stop committing provocations. The most difficult situation is at Donetsk direction, – ATO press center” – “UKR forces per day 46 times violated the ceasefire – the Defense Ministry DPR” (in Russian)
• “SBU informs one of SBU heads in Kyiv city and region detained on high treason charges” – “One of the leaders of the SBU Kyiv detained on suspicion of treason” (SBU, in Ukrainian) – “One of SBU heads in Kyiv city and region detained on high treason charges – SBU”
• “Interior Ministry says two policemen shot near Odesa beach, one dead” – “Police officer killed in Odesa”

The Info-Fight

• “Counter-Russian Propaganda Compilation for 26 June 2015”

Oh, Those Russians ….

• “Russian Military Buildup Is Evidence Putin Plans To Seize Ukraine, Kiev Official Says” – “Ukraine’s Defense Minister Says Putin Plans to Seize Country”
• “Russian forces rehearse ‘taking control of the Baltic’ “ – Report:  “The Coming Storm” with Edward Lucas

Constitutional Stuff

• “Poroshenko: Decentralization to help Ukraine get vaccinated against totalitarianism” – “President: Ukraine will determine the status of its territories independently” 
• “Poroshenko: Ukrainian language will remain the only official one”
• “West tries to force Kiev to hold elections in the occupied Donbas” (in Russian)
• “(DPR’s) Pushilin: we do not know what “representatives of Donbass” Poroshenko consulted in regard to amending the Constitution”
• “Poroshenko lying, speaking on the harmonization of the draft constitution with representatives of Donbass – (LPR’s) Plotnitsky” (in Russian)

MH-17 Shootdown

• “Commemoration ceremony to be held to mark anniversary of MH17–Malaysian official”
• “(Russian) Diplomat Rejects U.N. Tribunal on Malaysian Jet Shot Down in Ukraine” – “Russia rejects calls for UN tribunal to prosecute MH17 suspects”

Other

• “The head of the Ministry of defense of Ukraine did not rule out the seventh wave of mobilization”
• “President: We will do everything to ensure security of the state”
• “Col. Gen. Viktor Muzhenko: The best trained, well-equipped military which are brave and believe in victory win a war”
• “Alexander Litvinenko: New system crossing checkpoints should start working from July 7” (NSDC, in Ukrainian)
• “The woman who leads a rebel Ukraine army unit”
• “Interview with Julia Tselinsky (pro-separatist) battalion commander “Viking” 1st MSbr Alexei Viking” (in Russian)
• “Moskal: the Fighter Aydar has prepared dozens of grenade launchers to send to Kiev”
• “Soldiers of the (pro-separatist) battalion Vostok receives  second batch of uniforms, ankle boots” (in Russian)
• “Red Cross humanitarian convoy subjected to fire on the part of Ukrainian military in Donbass” – “Medicine and gas will be brought from Russia to the occupied territory” – “Address the issue of getting humanitarian aid to the DNR” (in Russian)
• “1954 Transfer of Crimea to Ukraine Illegal – Russian Prosecutor General”

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