July 30, August
1, 2016, DONi Donbass
International News Agency https://dninews.com (Donbass)
1- Shoigu warned Ukraine: Russia won't allow to conquer Donbass
2- Ukraine has frozen Minsk process in hope of Hillary Clinton's victory
3- EDITORIAL/Donetsk blog: Situation in the South Worsening -- US Supply Kiev with Ammunition
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1- Shoigu warned Ukraine: Russia won't allow to conquer Donbass
Saturday, July
30, 2016, DONi Donbass International News
Agency https://dninews.com (Donbass)
The Minister of
Russia's Defense Ministry Sergey Shoigu has publicly disclosed the strategic
and tactical data on structure and number of the Russian alignment of forces on
the southern flank and directly mentioned NATO and Ukraine in his speech.
“The matter is
that Kiev has already practically stated about the third military campaign
against the DPR and the LPR. And it's not just words. The western instructors
(the vast majority of whom are
Americans) have spent one year to train the
Ukrainian Armed forces and the local National Guard. And it is not necessarily
the case that the USA delivered to Kiev only the non-lethal weapon … Today all
this armada is being deployed to the contact line. At the same time the
Ukrainian side doesn't make any secret that it is going to be at war not with
the separatists, but namely with Russia – at first in Donbass, and then in the
Crimea. Or perhaps even simultaneously.”
Sadly, but to
all appearances sooner or later Ukraine can turn from frankly unfriendly state
into the strategic opponent of Russia. To protect this direction, Moscow is
simply forced to keep in-place forces on border with Ukraine. Generally, the
relations of two once brotherly states are cardinally changing, and,
unfortunately, not to the best. Mikhail Zurabov's resignation is a clear
evidence of that.
DONi News
Agency
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2- Ukraine has frozen Minsk process in hope of Hillary Clinton's victory
Saturday, July
30, 2016, DONi Donbass International News
Agency https://dninews.com (Donbass)
Kiev isn't
going to implement the Minsk Agreements because it has got the green light to
do that from the USA, stated the director of the Kiev center for political
researches and conflict resolution studies Mikhail Pogrebinsky.
“You shouldn't
look to the Contact group, but it is necessary to give ear to the US Ambassador
to Ukraine Pyatt. He says that Ukraine shouldn't fulfill anything , let them
leave (Donbass), give back borders, stop shooting, but Ukraine is completely
right. And after that we should expect there will be any progress?”
“I think that
the situation gets hung up in expectation of the presidential elections in the
USA. It is a known fact, it's discussed in political circles: until Clinton
comes, we won't solve anything.”
DONi News
Agency
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3- EDITORIAL/Donetsk blog: Situation in the South Worsening -- US Supply Kiev with Ammunition
Monday, August 1, 2016, DONi Donbass International News Agency
https://dninews.com (Donbass)
By the middle of the week, on the front in
Donbass, the number of bombardments of the Republic's territory by the
Ukrainian army sharply decreased. At the beginning of the week, according to
the DPR Defense Ministry, the Ukrainian military opened fire up to 1,000 times
per day; yesterday they made a bit more than 100 attacks, with no artillery
used, while on Monday, July 25, about 90 artillery shells landed on the
territory of the DPR.
The DPR authorities attribute this
"calm" to the Contact Group meeting held in Minsk this week. It is
not the first time when Kiev pretends to be committed to the Minsk Agreements
during such meetings, each time increasing the intensity of the attacks after
their completion.
However, even the significantly reduced number
of attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine resulted in casualties. The military
authorities of the Republic reported three DPR soldiers dead and another two
wounded. There were also wounded three civilians: a man born in 1962 in Donetsk
and two residents of Kominternovo, in the south of the Republic.
According to the Republican army soldiers, the
losses of the Ukrainian side made, in recent days, at least 15 men: 10 killed
in the Donetsk area, 4 in the Mariupol direction and 3 in the LPR. The reports
of the press service of the ATO headquarters contain no available information
about the Ukrainian losses.
In the LPR, a group of journalists came under
attack from the Ukrainian side. While they were interviewing a soldier of the
Republican army, a sniper opened fire them.
The shelling by Kiev also caused further
destruction. According to the DPR authorities, over the past three days 16
houses were damaged, mostly in Gorlovka, the largest city in the north of the
Republic, and in Dokuchaevsk and Kominternovo in the south of the DPR. Most of
the destruction occurred in the northern outskirts of Gorlovka, which,
according to local residents, was shelled with a Ukrainian tank.
In addition, the bombardments of Donetsk from
the Ukrainian positions resulted in damage to a pipeline, leaving over 500
homes without gas.
The DPR Ministry of Construction reported this
week that, in the two years of Ukraine’s armed aggression against Donbass, only
in the DPR there had been damaged almost 24 thousand houses and social
facilities.
Kiev’s intention to destroy the Donbass infrastructure
is evidenced not only by Ukrainian targeted attacks on its facilities, but also
by the fact that the Ukrainian side is doing everything possible to prevent
their restoration.
Last week, the Ukrainian artillery damaged the
Donetsk filtration plant, which resulted in the broken water supply of the DPR
capital and many surrounding localities, with a total of 4,000 inhabitants. So
far, the plant has not been restored yet because of attacks on repair crews
from the Ukrainian side.
In Dokuchaevsk, the DPR authorities declared a
state of emergency due to a breakthrough of the main pipeline on the
Ukraine-controlled territory, which resulted in more than 20,000 civilians on
both sides of the front left without water.
In addition, according to the DPR intelligence,
on the Kiev-controlled territory to the north of Donetsk, the Ukrainian troops
blew up the dam at the lake which is a strategic water reserve storage for
Donetsk, Gorlovka and Yasinovataya located between them.
Kiev also refused to give security guarantees
for repairs on power lines in the Dokuchaevsk area, damaged by a bombardment
from the Ukrainian side last week.
From the south, Mariupol direction comes little
official information. However, war correspondents bring from there disturbing
news about the methodical, ongoing for several months, shelling by the
Ukrainian side using heavy artillery, mortars of all calibers, infantry
fighting vehicles and tanks, with the consequent large-scale
destruction in nearby localities. The OSCE observers,
according to the DPR soldiers on positions, almost never come there to document
bombardments and destruction.
Having reduced the intensity of fire for the
time of negotiations in Minsk, the Ukrainian command uses this time for the
rotation of their units and providing them with additional personnel and
equipment. According to the DPR intelligence, in the last few days, Kiev
delivered to the front about 80 units of equipment, including heavy mortars,
motorized artillery systems, tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and armored
personnel carriers, and 10 trucks with ammunition (see below pictures of
weapons mentioned), as well as up to 1,000 personnel, including more than 100
Lithuanian mercenaries.
The LPR Defense Ministry reported that Kiev
delivered to their sector of the front a penalty unit composed entirely of
released convicts.
In addition, the DPR intelligence reported that
the West secretly supplies Ukraine with lethal weapons. In particular, this
week, the US Air Force brought to Kiev an allegedly humanitarian cargo, which,
in addition to 5 tons of medicines, contained 16 tons of ammunition for small
arms, namely, about 2 million cartridges, signal flares and smoke grenades.
The Ukrainian side also intensified reconnaissance
operations by UAVs, 5 of which were discovered over Donetsk only yesterday, as
well as sharply reduced its activity on the radio.
According to local residents, to the north of
Gorlovka, in the area of the only entry/exit checkpoint there, the Ukrainian
military are equipping a new military checkpoint, despite the fact that it is
located in the "gray" area. The passage of civilian cars at this
checkpoint is closed, the locals are allowed to pass only on foot, in small
groups. Yesterday evening, the Ukrainian military several times opened fire at
them from automatic weapons.
As a result, queues of civilians waiting to
pass in the 30-degree heat, substantially increased at the remaining three
entry/exit checkpoints. Yesterday, a civilian died of a heart attack at one of
them.
The Contact Group meeting held this week in
Minsk resulted in nothing. According to Denis Pushilin, the head of the DPR
delegation, for almost two years since signing the Minsk Agreements, out of
their 13 clauses Kiev has fulfilled only one, namely, the clause on the
establishment of working groups on various aspects of the settlement of the
conflict in Donbas. In recent negotiations the Ukrainian delegation did not
provide even oral proposals for such a settlement, let alone documents adopted
in Kiev and agreed with the Republics.
Head of the OSCE Special monitoring mission,
Ertugrul Apakan announced at a meeting of the Organization Permanent Council
that the parties had failed the cease-fire, as evidenced by the constant
availability and use of prohibited large-caliber weapons in the alleged
"security zone».
Locals on the Kiev-controlled territories
report that the Defense Ministry of Ukraine is creating territorial defense
units consisting of 150-200 men, performing different rear functions and
considered a combat units reserve. Officially, these units are formed on a
voluntary basis, but according to reports from the ground, the local police are
forced to join them under threat of dismissal.
In the Ukrainian media recently appeared
reports from the east of the country, in which they say that the Ukrainian army
has advanced by 3 or 4 km and the soldiers are just waiting for the order on a
further, full-scale offensive.
DONi News Agency / Irina Burya, 29.7.2016
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