MILNEWS.ca #UKR Update – 082300UTC October 2015

Eye Catchers

• “In Lviv began the active phase of preparation of Ukrainian military units within the Armed Forces of Ukraine coeducation and Canada” (UKR MoD, in Ukrainian) – “In Kiev, the first meeting of Ukrainian-Canadian international scientific conference on the rehabilitation of participants ATO” (UKR MoD, in Ukrainian) – “In Irpin Canadian hospital specialists will give master classes on medical, physical and psychological rehabilitation of fighters ATO” (UKR MoD, in Ukrainian)
• “Moscow Welcomes Donbass Republics’ Decision to Postpone Local Elections” – “Arseniy Yatsenyuk says postponement of “elections” in Donetsk and Luhansk is Russia’s attempt to sell a bill of goods”  (Information and Communication Department of the Secretariat of the Cabinet Office)
  
• “Poroshenko against introducing 20 year sentence for bribing officials as punishment is too severe relative to other crimes” – “Poroshenko: bribe-takers should be afraid of inevitability rather than jail term”

Updates

• “Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30hrs, 7 October 2015”
• “OSCE SMM Created Forward Patrol Bases To Control Arms Withdrawal”
• “ATO spokesman Anatoly Stelmach. Digest Events 08/10/2015 Evening” (UKR MoD, video, in Ukrainian)
  
• “OSCE finds evidence that Ukrainian checkpoint shelled in Donbas, refers to violation of truce agreements”
• “OSCE considers heavy weapons withdrawal process in Donbas to be unsatisfactory: “Some equipment absent in storage locations” “
• “Ukraine military refuses to withdraw artillery from Luhansk region”
• “Defense Minister Colonel General Stephen Poltorak signed a decree on awarding VDV (airborne) brave veterans – members of ATO” (UKR MoD, in Ukrainian)
• “Militant Band Attacked Village And Stole Woman In Donetsk Region”
• “Dnipropetrovsk SBU detained militants’ stronghold — Employees of the Security Service of Ukraine detained in Dneprodzerzhinsk illegal militant terrorist groups “OPLOT” ….”
• “The president pardoned 20 people, including – Volunteer Khodakivskiy” (UKR Pres page, in Ukrainian)
  

Crimea

• “Ukrainian goods shipped to Crimea by sea – Crimean Tatar leader”
• “Blockade of Crimea destroys Ukrainian business — deputy”
• “Crimeans Flee Occupied Peninsula Due To Government Harassment”
• “Russian Foreign Ministry to assist Crimea in developing cooperation with foreign partners”

Oh, those Russians ….

• ” ‘Novorossiya’ Militant’s Contract Was Finalized in Military Recruiting Office of Volgograd, Russia”
• “Russian Volunteers For Syria Are Recruited – And Trolled – Online”

The Info-Fight

• “Kiev Adopts List of ‘Banned Soviet Figures’, One Man Conspicuously Missing”

Elections

• “Russian-backed Separatists Postpone Disputed Elections”

Minsk/Other Talks

• “Minsk didn’t receive requests on Trilateral Contact Group extraordinary meeting”
• “Trilateral contact group may discuss shelling of Troitsky checkpoint via video link on Friday – Kuchma”
• “Normandy Four leaders may meet again before end of 2015 – Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry”

MH-17 Shootdown

• “MH17: Bellingcat identifies those involved in transporting Buk”
• “MH17 downed by Russia-brought Buk surface-to-air missile – journalist’s investigation”
• “Dutch Media Appeal Gov’t Failure to Disclose MH17 Crash Information”

The Humanitarian Crisis

• “Ukraine: Checkpoints and power cuts hit the elderly”  (International Committee of the Red Cross)
• “Ukraine Humanitarian Newsletter Issue 01 | September 2015”  (UN Population Fund)
• ” ‘Small Exodus’ of Ukrainian Refugees Leaving Russia — A “small exodus” of Ukrainian refugees has been leaving Russia recently, the head of Russia’s Federal Migration Service told state-run news agency RIA Novosti on Thursday ….”

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