Orphanage under fire as Kiev forces shell Slavyansk
Published time: June 01, 2014 20:45
RIA Novosti / Maks Vetrov
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Army, Clashes, Conflict, Military, Ukraine
Several buildings, including an orphanage, have been severely damaged by artillery fire in Slavyansk, eastern Ukraine, where fighting between self-defense troops and Kiev’s army renewed over the weekend.
Fortunately, there were no casualties among children at Sails of Hope orphanage, as all of them were evacuated after the building previously came under fire on May 19.
This is the third time that the orphanage has been shelled. Its windows are now shattered, and its roof and walls are riddled with bullets. There is a massive hole under a window. The building is likely to not be repaired, meaning Sails of Hope will be forced to find a new home.
On Wednesday, the Ukrainian military shelled a residential area of Slavyansk, hitting a children’s hospital, a school, and a kindergarten.
Another facility shelled on Sunday, the Scientific and Research Institute of High Voltages, is some six kilometers away from the orphanage. The building sustained severe destruction, as a mine exploded on the road in front of it. According to reports, five civilians received shrapnel wounds.
Walking distance from the institute, the Slavtyazhmash plant – which produces heavy machinery for coal mining – was also targeted by artillery fire. As a result, part of the building burst into flames.
“The plant was fired at from Karachun Mountain, where the Ukrainian army’s artillery is deployed,” RIA Novosti quoted a self-defense representative as saying.
The already turbulent situation in Donetsk and Donetsk region – where the city of Slavyansk is located – significantly deteriorated after the presidential elections on May 25, when Ukrainian troops intensified a military operation in eastern Ukraine.
Meanwhile, several funerals of those killed in Monday’s shelling were held in Slavyansk on Wednesday. According to the latest reports, four people have died from shrapnel wounds since then.
While Kiev authorities continue to assert that the military action in the southeast is meant to protect the people against “terrorists,” many on the ground in Slavyansk have a directly opposite opinion on the issue.
“We are simply horrified – you see? Horrified that our ‚brave army,‘ which we pay taxes to maintain, is [doing] nothing else but destroying us. And our president, who must protect the civilian population – he is determined to exterminate us,” a woman working at the damaged school no. 13 told RT’s Ruptly news agency.
“For some reason, they think that we here in Slavyansk are all terrorists,” the woman said.
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Published time: May 30, 2014 08:28
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R), Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev (C) and Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko shake hands during a meeting of the Eurasian Economic Union in Astana May 29, 2014. (Reuters / RIA Novosti / Mikhail Klimentyev)
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The Eurasian Economic Union is a historic deal and represents a pivot to the East, global financial markets expert Patrick Young told RT. The new union will force the EU to be more competitive and will be a wake-up call for US.
On Thursday, Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan signed the Eurasian Economic Union which will come into effect in January 2015. The new bloc will cut down trade barriers and comprises of over 170 million people, making it the largest common market in the former Soviet space.
RT: Just how big a deal is this?
Patrick Young: This is a very interesting deal. It is one huge step, part of the pivot to the East that Russia has been behind, and of course we have seen in recent weeks really come together. Think about it this way — amongst these three countries alone in the customs union they’ve had over the last few years they’ve increased their trade between themselves by the equivalent of the entirety of Russia’s trade with the US. It has multiple possible impacts – some possibilities for every business, small and large, whether you are sitting in Minsk or Almaty, or wherever you are in Russia to profit from the opportunity. Eurasian economic union is a new power-trading bloc. It has many resources, a huge number of people. We are talking about 170 million people – 1.5 percent of the world’s population. They are covering thought 15 percent of the world’s land, 20 percent of the world’s gas resources, 15 percent of the world’s oil resources and a great deal of industry and also agriculture.
RT: Europe is Russia’s biggest trading partner at the moment, should it be worried?
PY: Europe has to start looking at things from the competitive sensible perspective. Europe was not going to be the only union in the world, just as the same as NAFTA in America was never going to be the only trade agreement there. Europe needs to understand the idea that just because you happen to be on the eastern fringes of the European Union, it doesn’t automatically mean that you are going to try to fight your way into the EU as it currently is. Why not go with something like this Eurasian union, where you’ve got effectively all the benefits of the first stage of the European economic community, i.e. free trade, but you don’t have to worry about the silly regulation, plutocratic red tape, which plunged the EU community into crisis.
RT: What impact will this have on US economy?
PY: This is a high wake-up call. This is part two or part three for the US over the course of the last few weeks. Obviously the gas pipeline deal – that was the whole pride of Siberia project – was absolutely fascinating. The point about whether America needs to get worried is:
a) America needs to realize that just because it is the world’s largest economic power; it is no longer the uni-power in the world in terms of economics. Russia and the rest of the world have alternatives in how they trade.
b) And the most significant thing – and this is a very long-term trend for the US – is that none of it will be conducted in US dollars. People will find another way to trade. That is a big impact because the US dollar reserve currency status is the thing whereby it is the most dominant money on Earth ultimately is under threat. As soon as US dollars are under threat, the hegemony of the US project is going to find itself in problems. This is a big pivot and the US ignores it at its peril long term.
tags: scholl-latour und desinformation, ukraine-kalter krieg 2014
Was bei FAZ und Spiegel alles fehlt – weiterhin Nachrichtensperre zu verdeckten CIA-Operationen und US-Söldnern in der Ukraine:
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/streit-suedchinesisches-meer-china-wehrt-sich-gegen-kritik-aus-usa-a-972708.html
Merkel und Timoschenko: http://www.hart-brasilientexte.de/2014/05/05/ukraine-2014-merkel-freundin-timoschenkorussen-abschlachten-zum-odessa-massaker/
Ernennung von Hunter Biden kurz nach Besuch des Vaters bei den Marionetten in Kiew.
Ausriß. Friedensnobelpreisträger Barack Obama, Joe Biden und Hunter Biden – neuer Vorstand der Ukraine-Energie-Holding Burisma. Das US-Ukraine-Engagement wird immer lohnender.
Per Google-Suche hat man rasch heraus, welche deutschen Medien im Ukraine-Kontext bisher verschwiegen, daß sich die USA-Führung weltweit häufig Nazis und Faschisten bediente, um wirtschaftliche Interessen effizient zu verfolgen: http://www.hart-brasilientexte.de/2014/04/21/ukraine-2014-und-medientricks-kein-hinweis-auf-enge-zusammenarbeit-der-cia-mit-nazis-und-faschisten-weltweit-2-2/
Poroschenkos “Ministerpräsident” Jazenjuk: http://www.hart-brasilientexte.de/2014/03/13/ukraine-2014-hitlergrus-von-jazenjuk-fuhrer-der-kiewer-putschregierung-laut-auffassung-vieler-deutscher-zeitungsleser-neben-jazenjuk-tjagnibok-vorsitzender-der-faschistischen-partei-%E2%80%9E/
tags: scholl-latour und desinformation, ukraine-kalter krieg 2014
US-Militärhilfe für Ukraine verdoppelt
© RIA Novosti. Alexander Mazurkevich
17:26 31/05/2014
Die USA haben laut Geoffrey Pyatt, US-Botschafter in der Ukraine, den Etat der Hilfe für die ukrainische Verteidigungsbranche verdoppelt – hauptsächlich, wie es hieß, im Interesse der Steigerung der Kampfbereitschaft der ukrainischen Grenztruppen.
„In den zurückliegenden drei Monaten haben wir den Etat der amerikanischen Militärhilfe für die Ukraine verdoppelt“, sagte er in einem Interview für die ukrainische Zeitschrift Serkalo Nedeli (ZN.UA). „Besonderer Schwerpunkt galt dabei der Steigerung der Gefechtsbereitschaft der ukrainischen Grenztruppen und deren Fähigkeit, die Grenze ihres Landes zu verteidigen. Ich erwarte, dass diese Hilfe weiter vergrößert wird.“
Der Diplomat bestätigte, dass nächste Woche eine Pentagon-Delegation in der Ukraine eintrifft, um die US-Unterstützung für die Verteidigungsbranche zu behandeln. Am Vortag hatte RIA Novosti im Pressedienst der US-Botschaft in Kiew erfahren, dass der für internationale Sicherheit zuständige Vizeverteidigungsminister Derek Chollet am 2. Juni die Ukraine besuchen wird.
Wie RIA Novosti aus einer gut informierten Quelle in Kiew erfuhr, hatte der Sieger der jüngsten Präsidentenwahlen in der Ukraine, Pjotr Poroschenko, zuvor mit Pyatt den Sondereinsatz der ukrainischen Behörden in der Ostukraine erörtert. Der US-Diplomat soll dabei für „entschlossenes Handeln“ plädiert haben.
tags: scholl-latour und desinformation, ukraine-kalter krieg 2014
Bemerkenswert ist, daß bestimmte Multikulti-Parteien, Multikulti-NGO Mitteleuropas just den Anti-Multikulti-Kurs des Maidan kräftig unterstützten – und damit klarstellten, wie sie entgegen aller politisch korrekten Parteipropaganda tatsächlich ticken…
ARD-Panorama: “Welche Rolle spielen die Faschisten?”
http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/weltspiegel748.html
“Mit Nazisymbolen gegen Putin”: http://www.hart-brasilientexte.de/2014/05/18/weltspiegel-reportage-mit-nazi-symbolen-gegen-putin/
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