Category Archives: Ukraine
| More than 50 thousand Donbass residents visited the farewell ceremony of colonel Pavlov (Motorola)
More than 50, 000 people gathered in central Donetsk to pay last respect to the Donetsk Republic Hero, colonel Arsen Pavlov best known under his call sign Motorola, who was killed on October 16.
The farewell ceremony started at around 10 a.m. local time in the premises of Donetsk State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet, the coffin placed in the hall. The head of republic Alexander Zakharchenko and acting Foreign Minister Natalya Nikonorova paid their last tribute before the ceremony.
Police closed traffic on the city central Artyom street to allow the queue of people to say farewell to Pavlov (Motorola).
The funeral procession in memory of the Arsen Pavlov has stretched out for several kilometers. The correspondents estimate around 50 thousand people gathered to pay last tribute to the hero filling the central square and adjoining streets.
The coffin was moved from Donbass Opera premises as public chanted “May the Hero memory last forever”, and carried along the central Artem street with orchestra playing.
The column was headed by the fighters of the DPR Armed forces with Pavlov’s portrait, his awards and an orthodox cross in their hands. They were followed by a truck, the coffin with a body was placed on a gun carriage.
The ceremony shocked Ukrainian nationalists. They thought Pavlov Motorola was an ordinary criminal, but public opinion in Donetsk radically differs from their wrong picture formed by Ukrainian nationalist propaganda.
| Military situation in Donetsk is drastically deteriorating as Kiev wages intence shelling
Ukrainian armed forces have broken the latest ceasefire-within-a-ceasefire in Donbass with shelling of the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic, reports the DPR envoy to the Minsk-2 ceasefire process, Denis Pushilin.
“We are forced to report a drastic deterioration of the situation in the south of the DPR. Despite the agreements signed in Minsk and the recent decisions on disengagement of forces and weapons withdrawal, the Ukrainian side renewed today its provocations towards DPR,” he said.
| Andrei Sokolov: ‘They hid me from OSCE commission in a private apartment’
Andrei Sokolov, kidnapped six months ago while leaving a Ukrainian court, has returned to Russia
By Julia Polukhina, Novaya Gazeta
October 15: Russian citizen Andrei Sokolov came to the Dontesk People’s Republic (DPR) on December 4, 2014, where, in his own words, he had planned to engage in humanitarian aid. But on December 16, 2014, he mistakenly drove his car into a Ukrainian roadblock near Gorlovka, was formally arrested on December 29, and ended up in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) office in Mariupol. Sokolov was charged under Part. 1, Art. 258-3 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (assistance to a terrorist organization). Solokov’s lawyer, Valery Avzhenko, argued that there was insufficient evidence to convict Sokolov, and the evidence that existed had been obtained in violation of the rules and requirements of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
| Still Do Not See Any Nazi? Ukrainian Nationalists Stage Massive March in Kiev
On Friday, several thousand Ukrainian ultranationalists descended onto the streets of Kiev to mark Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) day, dedicated to the 74th anniversary of the founding of the WWII-era Nazi collaborationist organization.
| Communist Aleksandrovskaya is released from custody under house arrest
Active fight of the Communist Party of Ukraine for release of the first secretary of its Kharkov regional committee Alla Aleksandrovskaya, arrested more than three months ago on fabricated accusations, was crowned with success. On October 13, 2016, the Appellate court of the Kharkov region took arguments of the lawyers and made the decision to release Alla Aleksandrovskaya from custody.
It became possible thanks to skilled work of lawyers and active support from the foreign left-wing parties and the public opinion.
Alla Aleksandrovskaya, having left the Kharkov pre-trial detention center, declared to journalists that she is ready to prove her own innocence and criminal nature of the operating Ukrainian power.
Let’s remind, on June 28 the staff of the Kharkov and Kiev managements of the SBU, Ukrainian secret police, carried out a search at the People’s Deputy of Ukraine of four convocations, the honorary citizen of Kharkov and the head of the Kharkov regional committee of the KPU Alla Aleksandrovskaya and detained her according to Art. 110 “Infringement of territorial integrity”. Already on June 30 the Kiev district court arrested Alla Aleksandrovskaya for two months without the bail right.
On October 13th the Appellate court of the Kharkov region changed a measure of restraint for Alla Aleksandrovskaya to the round-the-clock house arrest with carrying an electronic bracelet.
