FARC concentrating troops while Colombia military moving into rebel territory: UN
by Adriaan Alsema Colombia’s FARC guerrilla group is concentrating its approximately 6,600 fighters in coordination with the United Nations while waiting for a resumption of a stranded peace process, according to the UN More »
Philippines President declares “separation” from U.S.
Philippines‘ President Rodrigo Duterte declared his “separation” from longstanding ally the United States in Beijing on Thursday, October 20, as he rebalances his country’s diplomacy towards China, AFP reports. More »
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 More »
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 More »
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 More »
| 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.
| Poland abortion strike: Thousands of women in over 60 cities refuse to work in protest over restrictive laws
Thousands of Polish women dressed in black have boycotted work and taken to the streets in protest against a plan to ban abortions.
| Odessa residents demand punishment for ukrainian nationalist who crippled the 79-year old woman at the trade-unions building
The Odessa representative of the Office of the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) took on control a recent incident during the commemorative meeting on Kulikovo Field in case of which the elderly woman suffered.
As activists of the movement Kulikovo Field reported on October 9, a group of Ukrainian nationalists from “Right sector” attacked this opposition action. Criminal and fascist Sergiy Sternenko is especially active in the attacks.
| Situation in Donbas has been aggravating
After a short period of de-escalation in Donbas region, Eastern Ukraine, numerous ceasefire violations has started again. As Donetsk news agencies reported on October 12, Ukrainian side does not stop shelling in the southern direction. The shelling protracts restoration of power supply in five villages of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the mayor of Novoazovsk region Anatoliy Yaanovskiy informed. ‘Villages as Sergeevka, Leninskoe, Dzerzhinskoe, Zaichenko, Kominternovo are with no power now. Utility services cannot start restoration work because Kiev troops restart shelling all the time since last Saturday’, it was pointed out.
Local fighting in this region was provoked by Ukrainian attempt to break through DPR positions close to Kominternovo and Leninskoe. But Ukrainian military units failed and as a result lost 15 mercenaries and 25 were wounded. From the opposite side two soldiers of the DPR killed, five more got wounded.
It was not only militaries, who suffered. Eight houses got different damages in the village Trudovskie in the west of Donetsk. It was pointed out that 333 cases of shelling with the use of forbidden by the Minsk armament were fixed. Earlier it was reported that Kiev troops targeted last night Zaytsevo, as a result of this several houses damaged.
On October 13 the DPR Head Aleksandr Zakharchenko has stated the serious aggravation of the situation on the line of demarcation of the parties in Donbass, including in the area of Debaltsevo.
‘The situation is escalating not only in the area of Novoazovsk. The situation has aggravated in the area of Debaltsevo; the situation in the areas of Pesky and near Dokuchayevsk remains tense as well. There is nothing about disengagement of forces and facilities in other areas,’ pointed out Aleksandr Zakharchenko.
| US enters Yemen fray with missile attacks on Houthi radar sites
A US destroyer fired cruise missiles on Houthi rebels early Thursday morning, attacking radar installations that the US claims were used by the rebels to target the USS Mason, another destroyer.
The missile launches from the USS Nitze mark the first time the US had directly attacked the Houthis in Yemen.
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