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Tragedy in the city Snezhnoye

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Military report of Novorossia, Jul 15

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South Front Morning News, Jul 15

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South Front Evening News, Jul 14

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Strelkov with subtitles, Jul 13

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Transcript (Glev Bazov):

The militia is engaged in constant uninterrupted fighting. At this time, very heavy battles are ongoing near Lugansk. There the enemy has concentrated enormous overwhelming forces. According to our estimates, over 70 tanks are operating against us, or, rather, against our comrades in Lugansk, in that region. At this time, we are sending there whatever ammunitions and reinforcements we can. However, the ratio of forces is simply disheartening, because, having put mercenaries behind steering wheels of tanks, the Ukrainian side is seeking to have the outcome of the war decided by cutting us off from Russia. For our part, we try to help by attacking the enemy on various fronts. Thus, for instance, last night, in the area north of Karlovka, our reconnaissance team attacked a battery of Grad systems. One vehicle – installation – was destroyed, and one was damaged. We will, of course, continue our attacks. However, it must be understood that the Militia is unable to cardinally break the flow of this war, particularly because the enemy is indeed being supplied to the highest degree. We have information that four anti-tank Apache helicopters have been transferred into Ukraine, which they are contemplating on using not even against us, but against Russia, if it decides to help us in a more active manner. (Question: Is this a provocation or is it an entirely purposeful measure?) After witnessing the use of chemical weapons in Semyonovka, I no longer doubt that anything could happen. Pretty much everything is being tried to pull Russia into this war. Either that, or to obtain confirmation that Russia will not enter this war and will not defend its brothers here, in Ukraine. They have effectively lost sight of the shores, if I may use this expression. They have simply lost all measure, lost touch with reality. They are no longer ashamed of anything. They think they are entitled to do anything they want, to use whatever weapons they want in battle, and to shell … They would even shell Moscow, given the chance. There is no honour, no conscience, there is no understanding, none at all.

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Donetsk airport today: interview of militiaman callsign “Abkhazian”

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Armored columns militias, today entered to Donetsk. Video shot in Makeyevka

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In Lugansk lit up another SAU “Carnation” militias.

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Armored columns militias on the way in Donetsk

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Today a junta SU-25 fired rockets into the emergency services depot in Loskutivka (LNR) and destroyed several emergency services vehicles.

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In Ternopil, military barracks was crowded with mothers of so-called Ukrainian “volunteers”. “Recruits” were sitting in the bus before being sent to the Eastern front.

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Ukrainian air force Bell UH-1 “Hueys” over Dnepropetrovsk:

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A house was destroyed as a result of shelling by the junta in Lugansk:

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Video effects morning airstrike junta on Schastye. As of 17:00 the number of civilians killed in the air strike Ukrainian aviation on Schastye reached 11 people, another 8 were injured:

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At least 8 armoured vehicles passed through Yenakiyevo today in the direction in Donetsk:

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Prisoner interrogation of the Punisher of the battalion “Donetsk”, seized by a group of Beszler:

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Report on the situation in Lugansk on 11 PM Russian news programme Yola:

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Punitive militia column destroyed at Roskoshnoye, Jul 14:

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The results of air raid on Shastye at 6:30 am, Jul 15:

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In Severodonetsk Executive summary of the Northern group of forces: Chief of staff of the army group Severodonetsk-Lisichansk-Stakhanov said that the whole agglomeration is still under the control of anti-fascists, and reason to worry about. The situation difficult. After delivery Seversk punitive almost came close to the positions of militia on the part of Lisichansk. The city of Lisichansk and Severodonetsk remain the only settlements in the new Russia, on the left Bank of the Donets river, which is not taken by the Ukrainian occupants. In Severodonetsk they may not enter, therefore, begin to apply the tactics that have been tested in the siege of Slavyansk. Surround the town checkpoints. Militiamen take counter-measures, dig up the forest road, make their barrier. Ukrainian army to bombard the city of mortars and bombs with the help of aviation peace objects. In agglomeration comes regular humanitarian aid from Russia, food and medicines, militia helps to evacuate citizens. Around the Severodonetsk deployed 125 brigade from Zhitomir, Kirovograd spetsnaz, airborne, separate mortar regiment of the airborne troops, 11 Rota and 4th battalion, the so-called nazvanii, (the latter are based in the Varvarivka), one tank battalion, against the Lisichansk exposed part 4 mechanized brigade.

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First major defeat of the Kyiv punishers
Max, Voice of Sevastopol, Jul 15 2014

After capturing left by militia Slavyansk-Kramatorsk district, rearrangement released capabilities and further promotion directly to the Donetsk agglomeration Kiev troops began a military operation scale with decisive forces and means. They pursued the following goals:

• to ensure the return of control over the border with the Russian Federation;
• to break the transport connection between the Donetsk and Lugansk;
• to make deep salients directly into the agglomeration;
• to ensure the unblocking held since the beginning of hostilities airfields of Lugansk and Donetsk.

The operation was characterized by a massive air and artillery strikes (including large-caliber artillery and the MRLS) directly on residential areas, were first noted the actions of large masses of tanks (up to 90 units in the area of Luhansk) and armored vehicles. Couldn’t achieve decisive success Jul 9-11, Kiev was forced to quit in the clashes of all available reserves. Moreover, successful offensive militia provided capture the vast majority airport Lugansk, and trying to tread along the border with the Russian Federation the southern grouping of the enemy was stopped in the area Saur-Mogila, came under competently organized shelling militia, and having suffered heavy losses, practically has completely lost the combat capability. Using all available reserves, and without succeeding in any of the directions, Kiev in fact suffered the first serious defeat. Its inevitable consequence will be an increase in the activity of the actions of militia and its gradual transition to action offensive along with increasing impacts raid groups on communications of the enemy. It should also be expected that not having an objective opportunities to continue offensive operations, Kiev will be forced to go to a ceasefire and negotiations justified in the eyes of pro-Ukrainian-minded part of the population defeat “humanitarian purposes” and “international opinion.”

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Translated from Russian (on LifeNews) by Gleb Bazov

To the President of Ukraine, P.A. Poroshenko

Dear Pyotr Alekseevich!

Pursuant to your order, I am hereby submitting proposals with respect to organizing our dealings with the refugees from the area where the Anti-Terrorist Operation [“ATO”] is being conducted. Accordingly, in order to meet the challenges put before the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence of mobilizing and rotating servicemen in the area of the ATO, as well as enhancing the effectiveness of filtration measures, I consider it necessary to introduce the following refugee categories:

Category “A”—women and children: to be assigned into the care of educational and training establishments (incl. boarding schools/orphanages)

Category “B”—invalids and pensioners: to be assigned into the care of medical and social institutions (incl. group homes for the relevant categories)

Category “C”—men aged between 18 (military recruitment age) and 65 (retirement age): this stream should further be split into two categories:

Group “C1”—aged between 18 (earliest military recruitment age) and 50 (end of military recruitment age); and,

Group “C2”—aged between 50 (end of military recruitment age) and 65 (those who have achieved retirement age).

Those in Group “C1” should be made subject to MANDATORY and full mobilization into the Ukrainian Armed Forces (or into other relevant units) for participation in the ATO, with a term of, for example, two months. If men who fall into the specified age category have health-related issues, but do not fall into the invalid category, they should be transferred into Group “C2”.

Those in Group “C2” should be made subject to MANDATORY mobilization into reserve units (or, for example, into units tasked with maintaining control over the territories already cleared of terrorists in the court of the ATO) for a period of, for example, one month.

Those in Groups “C1” and “C2” ought to be granted refugee status and the appropriate social guarantees only after demobilization from the Ukrainian Armed Forces. With respect to persons avoiding mobilization, the Ukrainian Security Service (“SBU”) should exercise thorough filtering measures. In cases of reasonable grounds, measures within the existing criminal legislation [should be] applied.

I believe that this type of approach would:

a) meet the challenge of rotation in the units involved in the ATO;

b) reduce the wave of refugees, which otherwise would have to be provided with means of livelihood;

c) minimize the threat of internal conflict, in which the residents of the Central-Western, Northern and Southern regions would demand an answer to the fair question: “Why is it that men from their regions have to go defend the East of Ukraine, risking their health and their lives, while healthy men from the East run into the ranks of refugees?”;

d) minimize the possible abuse of refugee status among certain categories of the population;

e) allow us to understand the proportion of pro-Ukrainian population in the East without resorting to sociological studies and surveys.

The position of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence in this regard has been coordinated with the staff of the Prime Minister of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Security Service.

With respect,

Colonel General M.V. Koval
The Acting Minister of Defence of Ukraine

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