- More of the latest from Ukraine here and here
- “Ukrainian authorities do not control their military units — Donetsk Republic PM” (ITAR-TASS)
- “Putin Tells Merkel Further Shelling of Civilians in Eastern Ukraine Must Be Prevented” (RIA Novosti)
- “Latest from (OSCE) SMM to #Ukraine 30 Sept: Donetsk City & surrounding areas situation generally tense; IDP situation dire” – “Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 30 September 2014” (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, via @OSCE_SMM Twitter feed)
- “Murders and Gang Rapes: Moscow Spins OSCE Probe Into Ukraine ‘Mass Graves’ “ (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
- “Latvian human rights activist Ejnars Graudins with a group of experts of the OSCE visited the mass graves in the Donetsk region, where they found more than four bodies of civilians and militiamen shot. The expert from Latvia said “RG” about what he had seen with his own eyes, and that he was told by the locals ….” (Rossiyskaya Gazeta, in Russian)
- “OSCE expert: 400 bodies found in burial sites near Donetsk — About 400 unidentified bodies are currently in morgues Donetsk, near which were previously discovered mass graves of civilians, said “Rossiyskaya gazeta” Latvian activist Ejnars Graudins …. According Ejnarsa, he visited two mass graves in a group of eight experts from different countries of the EU, accompanied by representatives of the DNR and LNR ….” (RIA Novosti, in Russian)
- “We can confirm that an individual named Eivars (or Einars) Graudins has NO LINK WHATSOEVER to the #OSCE or to the SMM to #ukraine” (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, via @OSCE_SMM Twitter feed)
- “Roundup Novorossia October 1, 2014” (donetskiy.org, pro-separatist, in Russian)
- “Ukraine rebels close in on Donetsk airport” (European Commission news aggregator)
- “DNR militia controls 90% of the territory of Donetsk airport” (donetskiy.org, pro-separatist, in Russian)
- “Donetsk airport controlled by Ukrainian military, no plans to exchange it – NSDC” (Interfax-Ukraine)
- “Militias cleared the town under Lysychansky from Ukrainian executioners. Overview of the impact.” (donetskiy.org, pro-separatist, in Russian)
- “Terrorists surrounding Mariupol: 100 militants arrive in Novoazovsk“ (ukrinform.ua)
- “Ukrainian and rebel forces must immediately end indiscriminate attacks in residential areas, Amnesty International said today after at least nine civilians were killed in strikes on a school and a bus in Donetsk ….” (Amnesty International news release)
- “At a meeting of the Government of Ukraine on Wednesday, October 1, Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk has appealed to the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, Security Service of Ukraine, Ministry of Interior Affaires, the National Guard, the State Border Guard Service, The State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection to speed up the submission of lists of participants in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO). He has recalled that despite the creation of the State Service for Veterans, People with Disabilities and Participants in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO), only 152 persons have received the status of participants of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO): “We’ve created the Service, we’ve held the first meeting, but 152 people it is not good. Moreover, the guys who fought, and their families will be immediately entitled to receiving benefits and compensations. ” ….” (Department of Information and Communication of the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers)
- “The Ukrainian interior ministry’s repudiation of any ties with the arrested Dnepr punitive battalion fighter looks like a trick used by a hirer of a contract killer, Russian Investigations Committee Spokesman Vladimir Markin said on Wednesday. “A trivial trick used by a killer’s paymaster – to deny any relation to the killer in case of his arrest,” Markin wrote in his Twitter microblog, commenting on the pronouncements of Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to the Ukrainian interior minister, who said that the arrested Dnepr battalion gunman, private Sergei Litvinov, had never served in this battalion. Earlier on Wednesday, Markin said that the Russian Investigations Committee had brought official charges against Litvinov for murdering civilians during an armed conflict in southeast Ukraine ….” (ITAR-TASS)
- “Communist Party anti-war rally attacked in Kharkov” (ukraineantifascistsolidarity.wordpress.com)
- “Odessa: Fascist Right Sector paramilitaries step up their attacks“ (ukraineantifascistsolidarity.wordpress.com)
- “Ukrainian people will not allow reanimation of fascism, and the Babyn Yar tragedy should serve as a reminder about the terrible consequences that can be caused by ethnic hatred ….” (ukrinform.ua)
- “NATO’s new leader offered an olive branch to Russia on Wednesday, saying he saw no contradiction between a strong alliance and building a constructive relationship with Moscow ….“ (Reuters)
- “The Cabinet of Ministers at its meeting on Wednesday decided to terminate the agreement with the Russian Federation on joint actions on organization of construction of the transport crossing through the Kerch Strait. This was stated by Minister of the Cabinet Ostap Semerak after the government meeting, a Ukrinform correspondent reports ….” (ukrinform.ua)
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