NEWSLETTER #63. 10-16 February 2015
CIVIC SECTOR OF EUROMAIDAN GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT EuroMaidan Newsletter # 63 Poroshenko Orders Ukrainian Forces to Halt Fire Minsk agreement is worse than the Munich agreement of 1938 Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko ordered Ukrainian military forces to halt fire in the east of the country in line with a fresh cease-fire agreement. http://goo.gl/KxTC4G Ukraine Cease-Fire Deal Signed At Minsk Summit. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said implementing the terms of a new peace deal that was reached after marathon negotiations in Minsk will prove to be "not easy." http://goo.gl/qwnBYR Minsk agreements extremely weak says Lithuania’s president. http://goo.gl/ReYP2P Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania's first post-Soviet leader, says that Thursday’s Minks agreement is worse than the Munich agreement of 1938. http://goo.gl/D5vImY Feb. 15. Another 170 Russian trucks carrying ‘humanitarian aid' illegally crossed the border into Ukraine. (Video) http://goo.gl/VOXEOZ Poroshenko will impose martial law if cease-fire fails. http://goo.gl/HTX1Zo
Feb. 14. Terrorist leader rejects key points of Minsk agreements. http://goo.gl/ObxmWG Feb. 14. Russia deployed an air defense system at Debaltseve, along with "a large amount of artillery and multiple rocket launcher systems. This is clearly not in the spirit of this week's agreement" State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki. http://goo.gl/B9nstX Lukashenka agrees with Poroshenko: Everyone knows Putin plays foul. (Video) http://goo.gl/yTQAYo Putin mentions Tornado MRLS in agreements, admits Russia is present in Ukraine. http://goo.gl/xaMbFY Russian TV boasts that Russian army can take all of Europe (Video, eng subtitles). http://goo.gl/ZfppHO ; http://goo.gl/14dY2C Ukrainian National Guard website hacked to fabricate “proof” of ceasefire violation: Twitter users investigate. http://goo.gl/1BWceq Ukraine will commemorate the Heavenly Hundred on 18-22 February. http://goo.gl/uQf0b7
Left: A group of Russian students has a message for Ukraine: “Forgive us.” (Video) http://goo.gl/PRnuhc Right: Minsk Memes: Two Dictators, Two Presidents, A Chancellor, And A Chair. http://goo.gl/AEczox
Zbigniew Brzezinski - If Putin seizes Riga and Tallinn The challenge now is to make this cease-fire stick where previous ones didn't Zbigniew Brzezinski - If Putin seizes Riga and Tallinn. (Video) http://goo.gl/V7DzSH
Vitaly Portnikov: Minsk and the West’s “useful idiots”. http://goo.gl/G58o7o
Nobody say the ‘N’ word. http://goo.gl/IS6A4H
A Time Bomb Wrapped in a Ukrainian Peace Deal. http://goo.gl/qkpe0u
Minsk agreement: Devil's in the details. http://goo.gl/u0dAag Minsk is Putin’s Pyrrhic victory opening the way to his eventual defeat. http://goo.gl/hAh8b0
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Bernard-Henri Levy: On the Road to Putinlandia. Petro Poroshenko, the president of Ukraine, surveys the damage done by Russia and asks for ‘a miracle’ of U.S. arms. http://goo.gl/tYo7ot
Mychailo Wynnyckyj: We switch from war to domestic upheaval, and back to war again without forgetting domestic reforms. In the meantime, we find confusion on both fronts. http://goo.gl/GDCUVv Myroslav Marynovych, former prisoner in Brezhnev’s concentration camps: When Diplomacy Prevails over the Principles of the Faith. http://goo.gl/qxzVYn
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Ukrainian positions shelled 10 times over first 5 hours of ceasefire 16 mostly civilian deaths, 66 wounded, 5 children. What did they suffer for? Feb.15. Ukraine’s shaky truce is mainly holding, except for Debaltseve. http://goo.gl/c4WvFi, Report as of Feb 16 http://goo.gl/vzrvAQ Feb. 15. Ukrainian positions shelled 10 times over first five hours of ceasefire. http://goo.gl/3qOusY Ukraine Ceasefire Ignored as Fierce Battle for Debaltseve Continues to Rage. http://goo.gl/q1YGjz; Watch VICE news dispatch at http://goo.gl/DnnLTa Feb. 15. Militants did not allow OSCE observers to Debaltseve – Foreign Affairs Ministry. http://24today.net/open/310660 Feb. 14. Russian tanks spotted near Debaltseve and more military hardware along the border. PHOTOS http://goo.gl/hmNIrW ; Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine have more weapons than some NATO countries - US Ambassador to Ukraine Pyatt. Photos http://goo.gl/x2G921 More and more intense battles reported prior to the cease fire start. http://goo.gl/W9KfPJ Feb. 13. Battle for Debaltseve: Ukrainian soldiers fight Russian-backed militants near east Ukraine hub town. http://goo.gl/OsCBMK
Feb.13. Petro Mekhed, Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine told journalists in Kyiv that the number of Russian troops has increased to 10,000 in the Donbas. “There are more and more coming in…” http://goo.gl/6tus0e “Sixteen dead, mostly civilians, 66 wounded — 11 in extremely serious condition. Five children. What did they suffer for?” Speaking at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, February 11, President Petro Poroshenko gave an emotional account of the shelling of Kramatorsk.(Video) http://goo.gl/ACQux0 The Right Sector views the agreements reached with the Kremlin-controlled separatists as contrary to the Constitution of Ukraine and reserves the right to carry on military action, its leader Dmytro Yarosh wrote on his Facebook page. http://goo.gl/KOPNO6 Scientific militarily field-tested approach to end Ukraine’s war. http://goo.gl/EWK0lL French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy flies to Kramatorsk with Poroshenko to support Ukrainians. http://goo.gl/JrTdYf These are the elite Russian troops that are allegedly fighting some of the most crucial battles in Ukraine. http://goo.gl/J04FF9
Left: Nadiya Savchenko. More then 60 days on hunger strike. Right: woman in Donetsk reacts as her home burns following an artillery strike. Intense photos show how intense the situation has become in Ukraine. http://goo.gl/eMv7ag
Russia denies promise to free Nadiya Savchenko as part of Minsk peace plan The day after the Minsk agreement was announced, Russia has . claimed that Nadiya Savchenko is not being unlawfully held, nor a hostage, and will not be released. This breaches the commitments made on Wednesday night, as well as flies in the face of numerous European and international resolutions demanding Savchenko’s release in accordance with the first Minsk agreement. http://goo.gl/Y5eJre ; http://goo.gl/AdkIoF Feb 16: Prisoner pilot Nadiya Savchenko may fall into a coma 'at any moment'. http://goo.gl/KweRQg Nadiya Savchenko was gaunt, but unbroken, as she spoke during the court hearing in Moscow at which the judge ‘found no grounds’ for releasing the imprisoned Ukrainian MP.
http://goo.gl/XMesqm An open letter to Captain Nadiya Savchenko, on day fiftyseven of her hunger strike. Olivier Dupuis. http://goo.gl/lsVoQF ; Dzhemilev to Savchenko: stay alive. http://goo.gl/PJcuO8 Feb. 13, human rights defenders from the Open Dialogue Foundation published the “Savchenko List.” They urged sanctions against persons responsible for the kidnapping, arrest and imprisonment of Savchenko, as well as for other gross violations of human rights in the Russian Federation. http://goo.gl/2i2gZE 20 Russian soldiers refuse to fight in Ukraine, complain to human rights council. http://goo.gl/kFZFEM
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Economic toll of Russia's war growing daily for Ukrainians Anti-Corruption Bureau gets 161 applicants for director’s position Feb 16: Ukraine’s Prime minister says Russia should pay to rebuild conflict-hit Donbas region. http://goo.gl/zxiYOg The first stage for selecting the head of National AntiCorruption Bureau is over. A total of 161 people applied to head the new agency that aims to fight corruption at the very top. http://goo.gl/iGCY6n Ukrainian PM predicts inflation of 26% for the year and improvement in the national currency. (Video) http://goo.gl/tFJ8T3 Ukrainian Parliament Endorses Nominee For Prosecutor-General. http://goo.gl/NCbZMM ; New top prosecutor professional but part of old system. http://goo.gl/sW049c Just two days into the job, Ukraine's new Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin is asking parliament to strip three of Kyiv's judges of their immunity from prosecution so that he can arrest them. The judges, Oksana Tzarevich, Viktor Kytsyuk and Sehiy Vovk, . are all members of the infamous Pechersk district court in central Kyiv. http://goo.gl/PuoFIM
http://goo.gl/9VOvkx The World Bank announced on February 12 that it will provide Ukraine with up to $2 billion in support in 2015, with assistance focused on aiding the poor, supporting reforms, and fighting corruption. http://goo.gl/mmPUZa Expanding its presence on the EU market is essential to further growth of Ukraine’s key agricultural sector. http://goo.gl/suTBef Ukraine's accelerating economic crisis is pushing many employers to lay off staff. And for the newly unemployed, finding new work won't be easy. http://goo.gl/ZmmW3E Ukraine’s Economic Crisis Is Deep; It Needs Loans Faster Than You May Think. http://goo.gl/ruXNF1 NATO's assisting Ukraine in defense reform. http://goo.gl/gzuyno
Top former Ukrainian MP arrested on suspicion of funding Russian-backed militants. http://goo.gl/jJcPHi Former Georgian leader Saakashvili appointed by Poroshenko to advisory council on reforms. (Video)
Left: The everyday life of displaced children in Ukraine: instead of attending kindergarten and playing with other children, they stand with their mothers in line for humanitarian aid. (Kramatorsk) http://goo.gl/LEBoEy Right: Here's who backs Putin in Europe — and why. http://goo.gl/D2KvHK
Crimean Tatar leader Dzhemiliev banned by Russia as a ‘threat to national security’ Mustafa Dzhemiliev has been banned by Russia as a ‘threat to national security’. http://goo.gl/bofMuE ; (Video) http://goo.gl/DzLk2E A court in Crimea’s capital, Simferopol, has prolonged the pretrial detention for a deputy chairman of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis. A district court in Simferopol ruled on February 11 that Ahtem Ciygoz must stay in pretrial detention until May 19. http://goo.gl/ifWUZV
Activist arrested in Crimea accused of hurting Berkut officer during Kyiv’s EuroMaidan. http://goo.gl/Zrc82K From teachers to pensioners to families with children, residents of rebel-held towns are struggling to get on with their lives amid the chaos and uncertainty. RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service continues to publish their testimonies. http://goo.gl/xmbztU
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Left: A soldier plays the Ukrainian national anthem. (video) http://goo.gl/M1VLx A Right: A Ukrainian startup promises easy 3D printing. http://goo.gl/MdD3c H
Robotics lab makes drones that Ukraine can use in war Muslim volunteers in Kyiv provide support to soldiers and IDPs Robotics lab makes drones that Ukraine can use in war. http://goo.gl/QntSRH VICE news: Flying Drones with the Dnipro Battalion. http://goo.gl/17t1rM Muslim volunteers in Kyiv provide support to soldiers and internally displaced Ukrainians. http://goo.gl/gVv1Gu Village builds house for Ukrainian hero’s family.
http://goo.gl/GDC6dU Volunteers in the city of Pavlohrad in Dnipropetrovsk region are helping soldiers on the front lines. They sew camouflage suits and masking nets and have already sent some 300 winter camouflage suits. http://goo.gl/frDSBI Boryspil airport hosts fashion show. http://goo.gl/yq62QH
Left: 200 meter Lithuanian and Ukrainian flags in Kyiv on Feb.15 to celebrate 15 years of Lithuania independence (Video) http://goo.gl/VmHe59 Right: A modular town for refugees from east Ukraine has been opened in Dnipropetrovsk region. http://goo.gl/y6v4YL
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