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| Heavy fighting in eastern Ukraine kills at least 19
Fighting broke out on Wednesday between separatist forces and Ukrainian soldiers on the outskirts of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, killing at least 19 people, officials from both sides said, and threatening an already fragile ceasefire.
Through the day, a seesaw battle was waged with tanks and rocket launchers for control of two small towns, Maryinka and Krasnohorivka, held by the government. Medics reported Ukrainian forces reeling in bloody and chaotic street fighting, and Ukrainian television said 25 soldiers had been wounded.
Under a peace accord known as the Minsk II agreement, after the city in Belarus where it was signed in February, heavy weapons such as tanks and launchers were supposed to have been pulled back from the front. The ceasefire, one element of that agreement, has proved to be shaky, with low-grade fighting flaring up sporadically in contested areas.
Witnesses reported booms and heavy smoke rising from the towns, and Ukrainian officials were discussing whether it meant that the war, in abeyance for a few months, had resumed in full again.
Rebel minister of defense Vladimir Kononov said 15 separatist fighters and civilians had been killed. Yuri Biryukov, an adviser to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, said three Ukrainian soldiers had been killed, while a local official in Dnepropetrovsk, another city in eastern Ukraine, said one civilian had been killed there.
Authorities in Kiev said the rebels struck first with a surprise attack that began with an artillery bombardment at about 3am.
As the sun came up, an infantry and tank assault on the town ensued, Ukrainian officials said.
“Krasnohorivka and Maryinka are in flames,” Yevhen Deydey, a Ukrainian lawmaker and former commander of the Kiev-1 volunteer battalion, said on Facebook. “All along the line, close combat is taking place. Fighters are trying to break through.”
Separatist leaders denied that they had attacked and a rebel spokesman said that the Ukrainian military had withdrawn from Maryinka on its own.
By evening, it was unclear whether Ukraine’s military had lost the towns. At one point, Deydey wrote on Facebook that Maryinka had been “70 percent” captured by separatists.
Later, though, Ukrainian military authorities said a ceasefire had silenced the guns and restored government control in the area.
Maryinka, though an eerie ghost town after heavy fighting in the summer of last year, is strategic because it lies along the main access road for civilian traffic into Donetsk.
If Maryinka is captured, it would become the most significant territorial advance by the separatists since their forces surrounded and then overran the town of Debaltseve in February.
| Odessa, 2 mai 2015 : la commémoration du massacre perpétré le 2 mai 2014 à la Maison des Syndicats
« Dites la vérité, dites surtout la vérité, toute la vérité ! Nos enfants étaient des gens bien ! Pas des clochards et des déclassés ! C’est tout le contraire, ils étaient ingénieurs en informatique, enseignant, poète, journaliste, designer étudiant… Dites la vérité, car sinon les fascistes vont vous rattraper aussi. Vous n’échapperez pas, ne pensez pas que vous leur échapperez ! »
| Des armes américaines interdites par toutes les conventions découvertes à Donetsk…
Les responsables de l’opération militaire menée par Kiev depuis avril dans le sud-est de l’Ukraine tentent de prendre leurs distances avec les armes américaines découvertes ce jeudi par des milices à l’aéroport de Donetsk.
« Elles ne nous appartiennent pas » a déclaré le porte-parole de l’opération, Leonid Matiujine.
Il a admis que les milices pourraient avoir trouvé des armes dans le nouveau terminal de l’aéroport, un bâtiment de plusieurs étages occupé en partie par des miliciens et en partie par les militaires ukrainiens.
| La Serbie dans l’engrenage européen
Reprint by: HISTORIEETSOCIETE
Le chantage continue, la Hongrie, la Tchécoslovaquie et la Serbie sont obligés de choisir ou conserver de bonnes relations avec la Russie ou l’UE. ET cela va bien au-delà de ce choix, la Serbie qui a déjà subi le primat des Révolutions de couleurs risque comme les autres pays de devoir affronter des révoltes intérieures fomentées par les Etats-Unis et l’UE. (note de danielle Bleitrach)
Prague: les Etats-Unis préparent un nouveau Maïdan contre le président Tchèque
Reprint by: HISTORIEETSOCIETE
Tout indique que les Américains tentent d’empêcher l’Europe centrale de coopérer avec la Russie.
Et ces jours-ci l’enjeu de la bataille est à nouveau Prague!
