MILNEWS.ca #UKR + East Europe Update as of 141950UTC January 2017

Cold War 2.0

• “Canada’s top diplomat: Sanctions against Russia unlikely to be dropped”
• “Trump won’t mind to lift sanctions against Russia”
• “Ukraine, Latvia urge Canada and Freeland to press Trump on Russia”
• “Interactive Missile Map Reveals How Messy a NATO-Russia War Would Be”
• “Updated (Order of Battle) Notes” (Russian Defense Policy blog)
• From the RUS MoD Info-machine  “Delegations of the Russian and Turkish Armed Forces held consultations in the Russian Defence Ministry” – “Over 1.8 thousand modern armament and military equipment items will become operational in the Southern MD troops this year” – “Chief of the Main Mobilization Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Colonel General Vasily Tonkoshkurov summed up the results of the autumn conscription campaign of 2016”
• “Lithuania’s foreign minister: Dialogue with Russia shouldn’t be smokescreen for inaction”
• “Going Trump Style: Lithuania to Build Fence on Border With Russia’s Kaliningrad”
• “Former NATO Supreme Commander Admiral James Stavridis said that Trump should look on the Arctic Ocean region as an opportunity to start cooperation with Russia on wide range of issues …”
• “Commander of South Sea Fleet to Become New Head of China’s Navy” – “Beijing Predicts ‘Military Clash’ If US Blockades South China Sea”

Ukraine

• Crimea (1)  “Ukraine conducted missile firing exercises near Crimea” – “S-400 air defense missile regiment assumes combat duty in Crimea” – “Don’t Even Try It: Crimea Protected by Russia’s Newest Missile Defense System”
• Crimea (2)   “Information Policy Ministry to present strategy of information reintegration of Crimea in late March”
• MH-17 Shootdown  “Bone Fragment of MH17 Passenger Among Items Seized From Dutch Journalist” – “Remains found in luggage of Dutch journalist belonged to a victim of MH17 flight, – prosecutor’s office”
• “I Get By with a Little Help from my Friends …” (1)  “Vice President Biden to Make ‘Swan Song’ Visit to Ukraine” – “Biden to arrive in Ukraine on January 16 – U.S. Embassy”
• “The meeting of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics’ Heads with the Ukrainian MP Nadezhda Savchenko in Kiev is impossible, the DPR Head Aleksandr Zakharchenko said at the press-conference today …”
• Updates from All Sides  “Latest from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), based on information received as of 19:30, 13 January 2017” – “Latest from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), based on information received as of 19:30, 12 January 2017” – UKR govt ATO map, 14 Jan 2017 – “ATO News: Situation Update, east of Ukraine as of morning, January 14, 2016” (UKR MoD) – “Donetsk Defense: Situation Report, 14.01.2017” – “Donetsk Defense TV News Report, 13.1.2017” – “Mortars, grenade launchers, artillery: Militants shell Ukraine positions 62 times in past day” – “62 attacks reported in Donbas – ATO HQ” – “(UKR mil) units shell 7 settlements of DPR at night, 90 mortar and artillery shells launched”
• “Ukraine’s Defense Ministry calls information about so-called capture of Ukrainian troops ‘fake news’ “
• “Bodies of three Ukrainian military retrieved from Donetsk morgue – Evacuation 200 mission”
• “(UKR) Navy releases names of three marines killed in Donbas” – “Volunteer revealed information about three soldiers killed near Mariupol”
• “I Get By with a Little Help from my Friends …” (2)  “Foreign experts train more than 860 Ukrainian Armed Forces instructors” – “Kyiv hopes for technical aid from European partners in reequipping checkpoint in Donbas – Gerashchenko”
• From the Separatist Presses  “With Worldwide Pressure, The Ukraine Junta Resumes Water Supply To Our Sister Republic Lugansk !” – “Sister Republic Lugansk Bread, Staple Foodstuffs Butter And Oil 60 Percent Cheaper Than Ukraine Junta Controlled Territories !” – “Ukrainian party resumes water supply to LPR” – “Kiev proved its inability to negotiate, having violated another “silence regime” in Donbass — (DPR’s) Zakharchenko” – ” “Russia is forever with us!” – Parliament Chairman of Lugansk People’s Republic”

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