EUROLEADER and EAST UKRAINIAN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS CENTRE
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TOPIC OF THE ISSUE TERRORISTS THREATEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS TO BURN THEM ALIVE.
Head of the human rights defenders group of Euroleader, which works in captured by the terrorists Debaltseve Anna B. (name is hidden for security reasons) received a threatening call from the pro-Russian terrorists. Terrorists in an unquotable form, announced the destruction of the human rights materials and the report of Boris Nemtsov “Putin. War”, which was taken on May 28, 2015, and threatened the defenders to burn them alive. Terrorists accuse the human rights defenders in carrying out reconnaissance and subversive activities in favor of European and US security services. Inhuman terrorist aggression is explained by the fact that the fragile girl with all her strength tries to protect human rights in spite of constant death threats. Already a year Anna with her team works on the front line of the struggle for democracy on the territory, where human life is worth nothing. Anna reported: “We hold to the last, we are very scared. We have experienced a number of attacks, beatings and arrests, but the last call was a real threat for my life and the lives of our human rights team. We are currently in a great need of assistance for emergency evacuation”.
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IN TODAY’S ISSUE: Echelon with Russian tanks arrived to the border with Ukraine to a city in the southern Russia.
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Oleg Kuzminyh: 90 of 124 days I spent in captivity in a room of the size of two meters and without windows.
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Ukrainian officers, who were taken in captivity, are trafficked to Russia for interrogations.
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Residents of Dnipropetrovsk were preparing acts of terrorism and murders of pro-Ukrainian citizens and soldiers of the battalions.
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Russian machine guns “Pechenig”, “Kord”: terrorists show openly the weapons of the Russian army.
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In the Crimea, they want to put the coordinators of the Crimean “Euromaidan” in jail.
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EUROLEADER 2014 ECHELON WITH RUSSIAN TANKS ARRIVED TO THE BORDER WITH UKRAINE TO A CITY IN THE SOUTHERN RUSSIA. Echelon with Russian tanks arrived in the Russian city Matveyev Kurgan on the border with Ukraine. A few days earlier near by they saw military trucks and rocket launchers. Nine tanks arrived in Matveev Kurgan, city on the border with Ukraine, 17 km from the border with Ukraine and 72 km from Donetsk. Such actions only aggravate the situation on both sides. The appearance of the columns of Russian military equipment on the border with Ukraine will be, no doubt, seen by neighbours as a next aggressive act of Russia, which for many months equips Ukrainian separatists. Meanwhile, big military exercises of the Russian army began in the Urals and Western Siberia on the same day as the large-scale NATO exercises in the Arctic. They believe, that Russian military exercises is a preparation for the more ambitious maneuvers, which will begin in September and called “Center-2015”.
THE INVESTIGATION OF SAVCHENKO CASE IS COMPLETED.
Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) announced the completion of a criminal investigation of the Ukrainian aviatress and MP from the fraction “Batkivschina” Nadiya Savchenko. It was announced by a spokesman of ICR Vladimir Markin.
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EUROLEADER 2014 OLEG KUZMINYH: 90 OF 124 DAYS I SPENT IN CAPTIVITY IN A ROOM OF THE SIZE OF TWO METERS AND WITHOUT WINDOWS.
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The legendary commander of the 90th airmobile battalion of 81st paratrooper brigade Oleg Kuzminyh, who was released on 22d of May, told about his captivity at the terrorist “DPR”, how he managed not to go crazy, about what he was asked about at the interrogations and how they threatened him to take to Russia. Oleg Kuzminyh was captured on the night of January 20 of this year, when his battalion was going to help the defenders of the Donetsk airport and had to pick up the wounded. In the fog the men had gone off their course and came up the position of the enemy. After the battle they were captured by the terrorists. — Oleg, when and how did you find out that you would be free? —It all happened suddenly. They looked into my camera, saying that they gave me 30 minutes to gather my things. They said that I would be changed for someone. Already outside, I found out that I and another prisoner were freed without exchange. Then they took me to another building where I spent waiting for two hours more. Before going to freedom I had an obligatory meeting with the “ombudsman” of their “republic” Dariya Morozova. She asked whether I was beaten in the place of my long detention. All those, who on the night of January 20 were captured at the Donetsk airport, were seriously beaten only on the first day, when they brought us into the building of the Security Service. People assaulted us on the street during the shooting at the public transport stop, where many citizens of Donetsk had been killed because of the mine explosion. No I nor our comrades who were fortunate enough not to be captured, had nothing with this tragedy. But people were told exactly the opposite. — How did you get any news there? — I could only guess regarding the negotiations on my release. Just before getting out I received the letters from my mother, wife and daughters with their drawings. Each word warms me. During last days of my captivity I was taken to a prison cell with a barred window. There were also Cossacks. It was a room about three to four meters. Sometimes there were ten people. We did not talk, but I heard their conversations. Cossacks complained that the high commanders treat them harshly and did not appreciate their military merits. They ended up in jail for violation of discipline, mostly for disobeying the military commanders. Obviously, on the occupied territories they want to establish unity of command but Cossacks used to live on the army statute. Before this I was kept in a “single” room. 90 of 124 days I spent in captivity in a room of the size of two meter without windows with tiled walls and floor. I asked the guard about date, day, month, weather outdoors. Mattress on the floor occupied all the space in the room. I was taken out only to the toilet and every ten days - to the shower. And a couple of times a month - for questioning.
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EUROLEADER 2014 OLEG KUZMINYH: 90 OF 124 DAYS I SPENT IN CAPTIVITY IN A ROOM OF THE SIZE OF TWO METERS AND WITHOUT WINDOWS.
— What did you eat? — Mostly it was small portions of porridge, cooked in water. — How did you manage not to get mad in such circumstances? What did you do for this? —I had read several times and almost learned by heart all three books available in the prison library. Faith in God, in my Homeland saved. Probably prayers of my family helped. I thought that they were waiting for me that they needed me. I could not even think that time that many people supported the campaign on my release. I could not even guess that people wrote encouraging letters to my family, poems and paint pictures and that in my native Zhytomyr on my birthday they made a billboard in my honor. Award received from the President, too, was a complete surprise for me.
UKRAINIAN OFFICERS, WHO WERE TAKEN IN CAPTIVITY, ARE TRAFFICKED TO RUSSIA FOR INTERROGATIONS. Ukrainian military prisoners are periodically taken by the separatists to the neighbouring territory to the Russian Federation for interrogations and obtaining of military information. First of all, they take the senior officers out for interrogations. There are also rumours that the prisoners are taken to the republics of the Caucasus. A part of the prisoners, who are in the lists, is already located outside the territory, controlled by the separatists. Thanks to the free borders they can relocate the prisoners at any time. Ukraine does not control 350 kilometers of its border. Therefore, to calculate the exact number of prisoners on the territory, where border is open, is almost impossible. If the hostages are of interest in political terms, in Russia they could be judged as terrorists, and also used for demonstrative actions. If they are valuable as a source of military information regarding the preparation of the Ukrainian armed forces, the further plan of actions, they are interrogated for information obtaining. Now, even officers with the rank of lieutenant colonel stay in the captivity of the separatists.
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EUROLEADER 2014 RESIDENTS OF DNIPROPETROVSK WERE PREPARING ACTS OF TERRORISM AND MURDERS OF PRO-UKRAINIAN CITIZENS AND SOLDIERS OF THE BATTALIONS.
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Security Service of Ukraine during the special multistage operation revealed a number of sabotage, terrorist attacks and political murders, which were preparing by a criminal group in the Dnipropetrovsk region on orders of the terrorist group “Luhansk People Republic”. Four attackers were arrested, who prepared the physical massacre of the volunteers and members of the volunteer battalions. They seized firearms weapons and bombshells from the attackers. The terrorist group was given a list of public activists, members of the “Right Sector”, volunteer battalions to organize their physical destruction. The group also had to carry out attacks in the regional centre. In their preparation for the crimes, the attackers trained at the former military training proving ground.
MORE THAN 6,4 THOUSAND PEOPLE BECAME VICTIMS OF THE CONFLICT IN THE DONBASS. There are more than 6,4 thousand victims of the conflict in the Donbass. The conflict in the East of Ukraine took lives of 6417 persons since mid-April of the last year. Since mid-April 2014 to 30th of May 2015 at least 6417 people, including 626 women and girls, registered as dead, and 15,962 people were injured in the conflict zone in the eastern Ukraine. This is an approximate calculation, and the real figures may be much higher.
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IN MOSCOW PUTIN’S SUPPORTERS ATTACKED THE PICKET AGAINST WAR WITH UKRAINE. On 30.05 at the antiwar picket of the organization “Solidarnist” there was an attack on its activists. Supporters of the Russian President Vladimir Putin from the movement SERB attacked the activists of “Solidarnist”, they tried to tear the Ukrainian flag, they also poured brilliant green and threw excrements. After a fight police arrested some members of the group SERB. SERB activists already attacked the picket of the movement “Solidarnist” against the war with Ukraine in February of this year. Then SERB also threw excrements. In addition, they asked the activists of “Solidarnist”: “Why are you then in Moscow, if you do not like Putin?”. They rushed with his fists and threatened to judge together with the Kiev authorities. “Poroshenko, Merkel, Obama - you all will be in jail. Everybody!” one of the bystanders said.
RUSSIAN MACHINE GUNS “PECHENIG”, “KORD” AND “SUITCASE OF OPERATOR KATE”: TERRORISTS SHOW OPENLY THE WEAPONS OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY. On the photo leftwards we see Russian 7.62-mm machine gun “Pechenig”, it is in service of the Russian army and it was never delivered to Ukraine and was never in service of Ukrainian army. On the photo rightwards we can see a big-size Russian machine gun “Kord” with conveyor system for ammunition of 12,7 × 108 mm. Machine gun “Kord” was created in the 90s as a replacement for machine gun “Utёs”, production of which, after the collapse of the USSR, was partially outside of Russia. It was developed at Kovrov plant named under Dehtyarev. Currently they organized a mass production, machine gun is officially adopted by the armed forces of Russia since 1998. It was actively used by the Russian army during the Second Chechen campaign and during the armed conflict with Georgia (2008). Another convincing evidence is a “suitcase of operator Kate”. On 10th of May 2015 they published a video of training maneuvers of so-called Battalion “ Vikings” who actively follow the 5th SS Panzer Division” Viking “(German. 5. SS-Panzer-Division” Wiking “) with one difference what weapons, they had, not German but Russian. But the ideology of new “Russian - Aryan missionary” is present to the same extent.
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EUROLEADER 2014 IN THE CRIMEA, THEY WANT TO PUT THE COORDINATORS OF THE CRIMEAN “EUROMAIDAN” IN JAIL.
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Illegal Crimean Prosecutor Nataliya Poklonska wants to put the Crimean coordinators of Euromaidan in jail. Now the names and coordinates were given to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. They are accused of give the orders to attack “Berkut” in Kiev in February 2014. “Among the commanders of Euromaidan there are Crimeans and the residents of Ukraine. They gave illegal orders to attack with chains, sticks and Molotov cocktails the members of “Berkut”. As soon as we collect all the evidence, the case will go to a trial. These people, we speak about, are not detained yet, but the punishment will be inevitable for them, soon they will be on the defendant bench”- Poklonska said.
MILITANTS OF THE TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS “DPR” AND “LPR” CONTINUE TO BUILD THEIR MILITARY STRENGTH VIA THE WEAPONS SUPPLIES FROM THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.
On 29.05 they recorded two columns of armored vehicles that went from Russia to Ukraine. They counted dozens of pieces of military equipment.
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