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TOPIC OF THE ISSUE SAVCHENKO WAS TAKEN UNDER CONVOY TO ROSTOV-ON-DON. Ukrainian aviatress and MP Nadiya Savchenko was taken under convoy to Rostov-on-Don, but he defense intends to appeal the case in the Rostov region. According to the unconfirmed information, Nadiya Savchenko held in jail of the Rostov regional department of the Russian FSS. “This information has not 100% proof, but that Nadiya is in Rostov-on-Don - it’s so, there is just a mystery in which of insulators. Before the court they can take Savchenko to the city Shahty, where there is jail-4. From there Nadiya will go to the Donetsk city court (Rostov Region). Nadiya lawyer intends to appeal the consideration of her case in Donetsk of the Rostov region. “We have sent a complaint against the authority that had defined the territorial jurisdiction, in this case – the General prosecutor’s office, which defined the proceedings in Donetsk city court (Rostov Region),” - Mark Feigin, Nadiya lawyer said. The problem is that Nadiya Savchenko was taken to the Rostov region, but until now they did not give any document on the jurisdiction place to the lawyers. They only showed this document of the General prosecutor office to Nadiya and took it away.
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IN TODAY’S ISSUE: The OSCE does not confirm the withdrawal of weapons by the terrorists from the contact line.
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For a year Russia has created many military ranges near Ukraine.
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Sentsov and Kolchenko do not recognize their guilt in the court.
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Sentsov complained about the tortures of the Frederal Security Service of Russia.
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The separatists told about life in the “DPR”: riots, hunger, defensive squads and lawlessness.
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THE OSCE DOES NOT CONFIRM THE WITHDRAWAL OF WEAPONS BY THE TERRORISTS FROM THE CONTACT LINE IN THE DONBASS.
Special OSCE monitoring mission in the eastern Ukraine recorded the movement of heavy weapons of the militants from the contact line in the area of ATO in the Donbass, but OSCE does not consider it as weapons withdrawal. The Chief Deputy of the OSCE Mission Olexander Hug announced it on Monday. “The OSCE Mission did not see the withdrawal yesterday, the mission observed the movement of tanks and other heavy equipment from the side of” DPR “and” LPR “” - Huh said, adding that this is not the withdrawal. The Chief Deputy of Mission explained that “it is important because we do not know where these weapons are now”. “There was a movement of equipment from the contact line somewhere, but we do not know where. We demand the report on the location of this equipment. Second, we need to know regarding what rules they take the equipment from the contact line. Third, we would like to know where it is stored. Thus, we have three basic requirements, only when they are fulfilled we can confirm the withdrawal “- the official said.
FOR A YEAR RUSSIA HAS CREATED MANY MILITARY RANGES NEAR UKRAINE. Russia began intensively to create the military training grounds along the Russian-Ukrainian border soon after the war began in the Donbass. This is confirmed by the satellite images. There you can see the rapid construction and expansion of these training grounds a few days after the annexation of the Crimea. Most of them are located in the Belgorod and Rostov regions, with the direct passage to the territory controlled by the terrorists. At these training grounds there are thousands of Russian soldiers and military units of equipment, including equipment and weapons. These military ranges are the collecting points of the transported to Ukraine Russian military equipment used to replenish the arsenal of the separatists and also they are the places for Russian soldiers mobilized and then taken in Ukraine from the remote regions of Russia. Experts say that the satellite images and they testimony of the Russian mean that training ranges are the starting point of the hidden war of Russia against Ukraine. www.euroleader.in.ua
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SENTSOV AND KOLCHENKO DO NOT RECOGNIZE THEIR GUILT IN THE COURT. Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov and Crimean activist Olexander Kolchenko in the Russian court said they did not admit their guilt. They said this in the North Caucasus military district court in Rostov-on-Don, where on July 21 a hearing was held on the preparation of the terrorist attacks in the Crimea, in which they accuse Sentsov and Kolchenko. “I have already stated that I do not recognize myself guilty. I say again, that this case is political and falsified “- Sentsov said. Kolchenko answer to the acusations of his “participation in a terrorist community and in the implementation of the attack” was similar “I do not admit my guilt completely.” Oleg Sentsov and Olexander Kolchenko were arrested in May 2014. FSS of Russia announced that they are the members of the banned in Russia Ukrainian organization “The Right Sector”. According to investigators, they planned to commit sabotage and terrorist acts in the several Crimean cities. Sentsov and Kolchenko deny their guilt. Well-known Ukrainian human rights defenders Andrey Drevitskiy, Andrey Kiselev Anna Horova, Natalia Holovchenko and Agnessa Vanessova repeatedly spoke in defense and support of Oleg Sentsov and consider the accusations made against him false and politically motivated. They also make actions of support to Kolchenko around the world.
SENTSOV COMPLAINED ABOUT THE TORTURES OF THE FREDERAL SECURITY SERVICE OF RUSSIA. Ukrainian producer Oleg Sentsov, abducted by the special services of Russia in the Crimea and accused of the organizing of terrorist attacks in the Crimea, said that he had been tortured by FSS of Russia. Oleg Sentsov does not recognize his guilt and expects that he will be justified. He speaks a little bit sharply with the representatives of the judicial system because he is already for a long time in custody. In addition, Sentsov claims that he was tortured by FSS of Russia. However, nobody knows where, when and under what circumstances the film director was tortured. The North Caucasus District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don examines the case of Sentsov. Sentsov lawyer says the defense will insist on Sentsov acquittal.
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EUROLEADER 2014 THE SEPARATISTS TOLD ABOUT LIFE IN THE “DPR”: RIOTS, HUNGER, DEFENSIVE SQUADS AND LAWLESSNESS OF ZAKHARCHENKO.
The terrorists complain that the leader of the DPR Zakharchenko used the war for his personal enrichment. In YouTube an interview with the representatives of the “Don Cossacks” of the occupation administration of the organization “Donetsk People Republic” Briem Safonenko “Dad” and a member of the so-called parliament of “DPR” Olexiy Bogdanov “Senya” appeared. Militants have criticized the current leadership of the organization “Donetsk People Republic” in the person of Olexander Zakharchenko for robbery and “discrediting of the idea.” They tell the following: At the front the situation is bad. For example, the battle in Mariinka. There a lot of normal guys have been killed, and Ukraine told the truth that they did not fire with artillery at Mariinka - it is 100% true, it was our artillery that fired at our soldiers, more than 400 people were killed. This was such a battle. Already the spontaneous demonstrations in the city begin, people go out in the streets and say that the homeguardsmen took all the luxury buildings in the center of the city, took businesses from people, all that can be cut for scrap they cut into scrap metal, thereby they destroy the economy of “DPR” by the same homeguardsmen. Now some individuals want to create in the center of Eastern Europe a country such as Cambodia or North Korea ... Corruption rolls over. Food prices rose, for example, in Mariupol, which is controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, meat costs 50 hryvnia, in Donetsk meat costs 200 hryvnia. “They make the repressions of the Cossacks. There are defensive squads that stand behind the Cossacks. There is looting of apartments, rape of Cossacks wives and other bad things. There something terrible is happening, people are really shocked. They intimidate people. I already do not want to defend very strongly something called “DPR”. It has no right to exist. Let’s hold a referendum now ... now everybody will be for Ukraine, for anything, but not for “DPR” – Safonenko says.
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EUROLEADER 2014 THE SEPARATISTS TOLD ABOUT LIFE IN THE “DPR”: RIOTS, HUNGER, DEFENSIVE SQUADS AND LAWLESSNESS OF ZAKHARCHENKO.
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Humanitarian convoys are sold. How many people at present are fighting? Less than 1% of the population of the Donbass. Is this a democratic country? 1% with weapons dictate the living conditions for the rest 99%. Now all the oligarchs came back to Donetsk, those who sponsored the Armed Forces of Ukraine and they will continue to sponsor, the money go to Kyiv. They have surrounded themselves with weapons and the millitans and walk here like gods. According to Safonenko words in other regions of east and south of Ukraine people do not want to organize any people republics. Militants complained about the lack of freedom of speech on the occupied territories: Any meetings are prohibited. There is only Zakharchenko. At least 70% of the deputies are old Ukrainian authorities, those who oppress our people, and managed successfully to steal. According to the militants occupation administration of “DPR” is corrupt, and its top executives engaged in illegal activities. “There is Olexiy Dykyi, he was chief of OBNON (Department to combat drug trafficking) in Donetsk quite before the war. He created the structure of the drug trade and fully controlled it, then he led another structure in Donetsk, in place of the major seller he put his man who is currently the commander of Makeyevka, and this person from the beginning of hostilities went to Kyiv, then he came back to Donetsk. He is now Minister of Internal Affairs of the DPR – Safonenko tells. Safonenko is skeptical about the future of organization DPR. “There will be bloody things, that’s all future. In Donetsk, restaurants work, there are always many militias there and meanwhile the old people stand in line for humanitarian aid. I do not know a person who got Russian humanitarian aid. Now we have apricots, cherries, sweet cherries, but when they run out, then a hunger begins if the situation does not change. Zakharchenko opened 10 trading houses for the name of his wife. We had oligarch Akhmetov, now we will have oligarch Zakharchenko.
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