MILNEWS.ca #UKR Update – 151800UTC July 2015

• “Poroshenko Visits Troubled Western Region Of Zakarpattya” – “Poroshenko to visit Zakarpattia region on Wednesday”
• “Poroshenko: Oleh Voyevodyn appointed as chief of SBU branch in Zakarpattia region — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that he will sign a decree to appoint Oleh Voyevodyn as head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in Zakarpattia region and he will take up this post on July 16 ….”
• “Chairmen of all district administrations of Zakarpattia region resigned – governor — The heads of district state administrations of Zakarpattia region have written the resignation letters ….”
• “Mukacheve incident jeopardizes visa liberalisation with EU, – Minister Klimkin”
• “Saving Maidan Ukraine From Itself: Mukachevo’s Implications”
• “Conflict in Mukacheve: Local problem of nationwide scale”
• “SBU detains saboteur mining railway station in Kharkiv”
• “Prosecutor’s car burnt in Uzhgorod”
• “Prosecutor of Odesa district detained for bribe-taking released on bail of 1,200,000 hryvnia (CDN $54,100)”
• “Rada gives green light to covert surveillance of judges and police”
• “OSCE Chairperson-in-Office to visit Ukraine”
• “A Ukrainian NGO’s website got taken down by GoDaddy, apparently at the request of Putin’s Internet regulator. It suddenly came back after The Daily Beast made inquiries ….”
• “Tanks of the 18th Motorized Rifle Brigade in Ukraine”
• “Ukraine, rebels report deadliest fighting in over a month”
• “Eight Ukrainian soldiers killed, 16 wounded in Donbas in last day” – “Eight Soldiers Reported Killed In East Ukraine”
• “Israeli and Georgian instructors help set up Ukrainian special border troops”
• “Donetsk republic registers 86 ceasefire violations by Kiev forces over past 24 hours”
• “Unremitting attacks rock Stanytsia-Luhanska in east Ukraine”
• “Sources: MH17 report blames Russian missile”
• “Ukraine Situation UNHCR Operational Update, 27 June – 15 July 2015”
• “Donetsk’s German sister city shows support for war-affected residents”
• “Ukrainian PM leads charge to erase Soviet history” – “Lenin Out: Ukrainian Soccer Club To Change Name Amid Decommunization”
• “Russia sends another “humanitarian convoy” to eastern Ukraine”
• “Russian Emergencies Ministry finished building another convoy with humanitarian aid for Donbas” (Russian Emergency Ministry)
• “Rada ratifies memo with Germany on EUR 500 mln loan to restore Donbas infrastructure”
• “Putin accepts PM’s proposal of disbanding Ministry of Crimean Affairs”
• More of the latest from Ukraine here and here

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MILNEWS.ca #UKR Update – 101720UTC October 2014

Whazzup? 

• ATO map, 10 Oct 14 (National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine)
• ATO map, 9 Oct 14 (dragon-first-1.livejournal.com, pro-separatist, in Russian)
• “Russian mercenaries continue to seep into Ukraine. Over the past 2 days about 40 buses with terrorists passed through the border.” (National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, via Twitter feed)
• “Yesterday night 30-vehicle strong military convoy, heading from Russian Federation, passed Ukrainian border near Uspenka, Donetsk region.” (National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, via Twitter feed)
• “Despite agreements on cessation of fire, shellings of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in eastern Ukraine have become more intensive, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said Friday ….” (ITAR-TASS)

 

UKR Pres Drops By Donetsk, Announces a New (military) Face in Charge
+ a Bit of Mil Reorg

 

• “President inspected fortifications near Donetsk — President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko arrived to Donetsk region on a working visit. He inspected fortifications in Kurakhove which is 32 km from Donetsk. Kurakhove became the first place of the President’s working visit to Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The Head of State examined supporting patrol base of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is a new operational tactical type of military fortification that allows controlling significant part of the territory and ensuring reliable and secured deployment of servicemen. Such bases are situated on the main strategic directions in the ATO area ….” (Press office of President)
• “Petro Poroshenko presented new Head of Donetsk RSA Oleksandr Kikhtenko — In the course of the working visit to Donetsk region, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko presented new Head of Donetsk RSA – General of the Army Oleksandr Kikhtenko ….” (Press office of President)
• “Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has announced Serhiy Taruta’s dismissal as head of Donetsk Regional Administration and Oleksandr Kikhtenko’s appointment in his stead. “The president has just thanked Serhiy Taruta for his work and introduced Oleksandr Kikhtenko as the new regional administration head,” presidential press secretary Sviatoslav Tseholko told Interfax-Ukraine on Friday. Poroshenko announced Taruta’s discharge while visiting Kramatorsk in Donetsk region, Tseholko said ….” (Interfax-Ukraine)
• “President Petro Poroshenko has dismissed the pro-Kiev governor of the eastern Donetsk region, Serhiy Taruta, the presidential administration tweeted on Friday. Taruta, one of the country’s leading business tycoons, has been replaced by General Oleksandr Kikhtenko. As he commented on his resignation earlier, Taruta said the move had been coordinated with him. “I must take care of election campaign right now,” he said. September 29, he was registered by the country’s Central Election Commission as a self-nominated candidate in precinct No. 58 in the Donetsk region as a candidate for Verkhovna Rada, the national parliament. Earlier reports indicated that Taruta made a strongly worded statement on September 16 against President Poroshenko’s decision to give a special status to a number of districts in the Donetsk region, which has been swept by struggle with government force involved in the punitive ‘antiterrorist’ operation since mid-April ….” (ITAR-TASS)
• “President: Heroes of the 51st mechanized brigade will form the basis of the 14th — Warriors of the 51st brigade who approved themselves in the course of the ATO in the Donbas will form the basis of the 14th mechanized brigade. The Head of State made such a decision in the course of the meeting with warriors and command officers of the 51st separate mechanized brigade of the Ground Forces of Ukraine that had taken part in hostilities in the ATO area ….” (Press office of President)

UKR DefMin Dropping By to Check on Winter Prep

• “Defense Minister Valeriy Heletey will go to the ATO area today with examination of provision of military units for their service during the autumn-winter period ….” (ukrinform.ua)

UKR Pres Wants Better Int Co-ordination

• “Ihor Smeshko: Intelligence Committee under the President of Ukraine will coordinate intelligence activities — “The President set a task to return professionalism to the work of special forces of the country,” newly appointed Advisor to the President of Ukraine – Head of the Intelligence Committee under the President of Ukraine Ihor Smeshko noted. In the course of his briefing, Ihor Smeshko noted that current level of intelligence provision didn’t meet the needs of state protection. “We do not have any coordination between information analysis units of security structures of the country. Information analysis provision doesn’t meet the required level in wartime. That’s why the President made a decision to restore the functioning of the Intelligence Committee,” Ihor Smeshko said ….” (Press office of President)

UKR PM On Cleaning Up Government

• “Arseniy Yatsenyuk: The Government embarks on execution of law on purification of authorities — Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk has commissioned the Ministry of Justice to establish a Department on implementation of the law On the Purging of the Government, while the head of the State Fiscal Service is to set up a separate Department of monitoring and verification of the declarations of high-ranking officials. He announced at a Government’s meeting on Friday, October 10, which was dedicated to the implementation of the law on the cleansing amongst the authorities ….” (Department of Information and Communication of the Secretariat of the CMU)
• “Since the moment of coming into force of the law of Ukraine “On Lustration” the government will immediately take personnel decisions. Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said this at the Cabinet’s meeting Friday, a Ukrinform correspondent reports. “The government starts fulfillment of the law of Ukraine “On Lustration”… After the law comes into force, the government will immediately take personnel decisions,” he said. According to him, he has already received a great number of applications on dismissal ….” (ukrinform.ua)

From the Separatist Side

 

• “Self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in eastern Ukraine has signed an agreement with Kiev authorities on the establishment of a ‘buffer zone’ separating the sides of the conflict, DPR leader Alexander Zakharchenko said Friday. “We have signed an agreement on a buffer zone. The document stipulates that Kiev-led forces will pull out from several towns, including Peski,” Zakharchenko told members of his Oplot movement. Peski is a suburb of Donetsk where Kiev-led forces deployed artillery to carry out the shelling of the city controlled by independence supporters ….” (RIA Novosti)
• “Over 15 public movements to be registered for parliamentary elections in Donetsk republic — A total of 723 polling stations of more than 2,000 existing on the territory of the self-proclaimed DPR will be open on election day, says the chief of the republic’s Central Election Commission ….” (ITAR-TASS)
• Translation into English  “(8 Sept 2014) Statement of I. B. Ivanov, Chairman of the Russian Common Military Union, the former Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the of Donetsk People’s Republic” (slavyangrad.org, pro-separatist)

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