Details on Izum.
colonelcassad
March 13, 20:06
Information on Raisins from a person who was directly there in the last days.
Details on Izum.
The main territory of the city is controlled by Russian troops, the Armed Forces of Ukraine were driven out of the city center, but retreating, the Ukrainians blew up two road bridges and ended up on a kind of peninsula. The Seversky Donets River creates a bend in the city and the southern part of the city, on which the television tower is located, is under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In this part of the city, up to a battalion of enemy infantry, reinforced with mortars and MLRS, is concentrated. Another pedestrian bridge leads to the southern part of the city. During the attack on Izyum, up to a company of Russian infantry was able to break through to the southern part of the city. The motorized riflemen occupied the bridgehead and despite all the attempts of the Vushniks to dislodge the Russian soldiers, ours not only hold out, but also gradually expand the territory under their control.
In order to encircle the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city and further move towards Slavyansk, the RF Armed Forces built a pontoon crossing below Izyum. It was for her that the battles went on for 2 days. The company of deep reconnaissance crossed the river, entrenched itself and fought, securing the crossing, while the bulk of the armored vehicles and infantry tried to cross it.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine conduct accurate mortar and artillery fire along the crossing, our armored personnel carrier literally swayed from close gaps. In the dead of night, in the area of the village of Kamenka, an air strike was launched on the accumulation of enemy equipment and infantry, which was hiding in the forest. I think I'll be able to show you objective control footage soon.
Unfortunately, yesterday, while holding the bridgehead, a scout died with the death of the brave. Mina hit him right.
With regards to the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Izyum, I would like to say the following. They fight competently, mortar and artillery fire is very accurate. In the forests to the east and west of Izyum, as well as to the south, on the road to Slavyansk, fortified areas have been created, from which mobile groups constantly leave, with wandering mortars and MLRS, which are removed literally after the first salvo.
The enemy uses drones, is armed with Buki and MANPADS, so army aviation in this area is working very carefully. On the territory cleared from the enemy, Russian troops are distributing humanitarian aid, trying to establish an elementary life for local residents. At first, the locals perceived us with caution, but now the majority is set up very benevolently.
Now the Izyum direction is becoming a priority. If the offensive of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is successful, then this will allow to surround the entire Donetsk grouping of the enemy and unite with the troops of the LDNR, creating a cauldron for several tens of thousands of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This is well understood in Kyiv, and therefore they are making every effort to hinder the advance of the Russian troops.
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Around 450 Arab and Foreign Extremists from Idlib Arrive in Ukraine
March 13, 2022
Almost 450 extremists from various nationalities have arrived in Ukraine from Idlib to fight against Russian forces, less than only three days after they left Syria, and passing through Turkey.
Relatives of the extremists who went to Ukraine told Sputnik that veteran fighters from terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (rebranded version of Jabhat Al-Nusra, i.e Al-Qaeda) have held a number of meetings with senior leaders in the Turkistan Islamic Party group and Ansar Al-Tawhid and Hurras al-Din groups, and agreed on allowing a number of all their fighters to enter Ukraine through Turkey.
The sources added that most of these foreign fighters are veterans of the Syrian war, had been causing issues in Idlib, and were given this “opportunity” by the terrorist organizations to fight against Russia as a compromise by which they would receive a new start and an acceptable income.
Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham also gave these fighters assurances that their families would be allowed to join them later.
Around 300 of these fighters are Syrian nationals who are originally from Idlib and Aleppo countrysides, while the remaining 150 are Belgian, French, Chinese, Moroccan, Tunisian, Chechen and British nationals.
As for the financial compensation, the sources said the fighters that hail from Syria will receive around $1200-$1500, but had no knowledge what the foreign nationals were going to be paid.
Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, has previously stated that 16,000 foreign mercenaries will fight for the country.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin warned Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz of the growing number of foreign mercenaries operating in Ukraine, including those coming from Albania and Croatia and militants and Jihadists coming from Kosovo in order to put their experience from military operations in Syria to use.
Featured image: Around 450 extremists of various nationalities, most of them veterans of the terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, have left Idlib, Syria, and gone to Ukraine to fight against Russian troops. Photo: Al-Mayadeen
(Al-Mayadeen English)
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EUROPE AND ITS ENERGETIC COLONIAL NEXUS WITH THE US
Betzabeth Aldana Vivas
12 Mar 2022 , 5:00 p.m.
The Nord Stream II gas pipeline, at the heart of the US attack against Russia (Photo: File)
The day after the announcement by Russian President Vladimir Putin about the special demilitarization and denazification operation in Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz ordered the European country's Ministry of Economy to withdraw the report on the Nord Stream II gas pipeline in order to to stop your certification. Also almost in parallel, the Biden administration added the project company Nord Stream 2 AG to the sanctions list .
From now on, the latest US administrations have maintained a permanent fixation on this gas pipeline, and the reasons, apart from being in the geopolitical orbit, have their historical features.
FROM THE USSR
One of the main concerns of the United States is Europe's dependence on Russian gas supplies, which has existed since the Soviet Union (USSR) developed an important network of oil and gas pipelines and positioned itself as the main supplier of energy to the continent.
It was 1963, when Kennedy tried to stop the construction of the Druzhba pipeline , applying an embargo to all phases of the construction process and to countries aligned with the USSR. With this, he put particular pressure on West Germany, which was a major exporter of steel pipes. In that decade, Western Europe only imported 6% of its oil from the USSR.
This pipeline is no small thing. It represents one of the largest energy networks in the world, with its branches crossing Belarus and covering Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, the Czech Republic and Germany. And it has a shipping capacity of 1.2 to 1.4 million barrels of crude per day, with the possibility of increasing up to 2 million.
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In an investigation for the magazine "The International History Review", Charles William Carter indicated that, in August 1969, German Chancellor Kurt-Georg Kiesinger informed Richard Nixon for the first time of the Soviets' initiative to build natural gas pipelines, specifically with West Germany, which would represent an important line of energy supply and exchange between both nations.
For Nixon, this meant that if Western Europe drastically expanded trade with the USSR, relations between the United States and Western Europe could be in danger, so he imposed economic and trade sanctions against the USSR in order to exert pressure.
Years later, in 1981, the Soviet Union was building the Yamal gas pipeline or currently known as Bratstvo, which runs from Russia to Western Europe, passing through Ukraine. Ronald Reagan, seeing him as another threat, tried to persuade France and Germany to join in embargoing him not only for pipeline construction equipment, but also for funding.
In this episode the twist was unexpected. Western Europeans refused to sacrifice their own economic interests to cooperate with the United States:
The chancellor of that West Germany, Helmut Schmidt, declared that “the pipeline will be built”.
The French government announced that it would ignore the second round of sanctions from Washington and ordered the Alstom company to proceed with the manufacture of the turbine rotors developed under license from General Electric.
At the 1981 Ottawa Summit, Reagan pursued a strategy discussed earlier in the National Security Council that envisioned an offensive designed to convince Western Europeans to abandon their involvement in the Yamal project by offering to supply West Germany with energy in the form of coal, but the proposal was also rejected.
In 1982 Reagan lifted sanctions on the Soviet pipeline.
The rejection of the Europeans could have been for multiple reasons, but the numbers spoke for themselves. Alec Nove, in his book Economic History of the USSR, explains that between 1965 and 1970 Soviet production of natural gas increased by 74%. Also, for a decade, from 1970 to 1980, Soviet gas exports to Western Europe increased sharply, from 3.6 bcm per year to 26.5 bcm per year.
The creation of networks of oil and gas pipelines in the Eurasian region opened geopolitical gaps between the United States and Western Europe. The US administrations, accustomed to having control and political influence in the production and distribution of energy, disturb the opportunities to develop an exchange of energy under conditions of peace, stability and balance.
NORD STREAM II: IS HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF?
On the Nord Stream II gas pipeline, we have published different investigations that can be found here , here or here . So, in this continuity of the events surrounding the gas pipeline plot, it is necessary to remember that before Angela Merkel left power last year, US President Joe Biden wanted, in a last attempt to undermine the project, to convince the official to stop the Nord Stream II.
But the result of that meeting was a simple statement "Russia must not be allowed to use energy as a weapon to coerce or threaten its neighbors."
It is curious to read these repeated narratives from the top echelons of power in the US, when recent history reveals in detail that coercion is part of their modus operandi, especially when it comes to energy. This was confirmed by the former US Undersecretary of Energy, Dan Brouillette, at the 2019 Global Energy Forum of the Atlantic Council in Abu Dhabi in 2019:
“After a long battle in the US between regulation and innovation, innovation finally prevailed. Innovation has stimulated a technological revolution leading to amazing progress due to a cascade of technological advances.”
"By exporting its energy, the US is using its abundant supply as a tool of liberation, not subjugation. We are freeing friends, allies and trading partners from dependency on any country that uses its energy supply as a weapon."
Both keys are in line with the US State policy in the energy sector.
In the first, innovation was essential to develop the fracking drilling technique and thus flood the market with shale oil , generating a change in oil geopolitics, where the dominance of the aforementioned US sector began to stand out.
Brouillette reflects this in the second comment, disguising the coercion with a supposed "liberation tool", since according to his logic, they do not use oil or gas as a weapon.
It is only enough to do a news review of these last weeks and realize the real coercion through sanctions to the Russian energy sector in the hands of blockades in the SWIFT system. The US policy of an exceptionalist nature considers that sanctions are diplomatic resources aimed at reinforcing the position of authority of the empire through offensive economic measures whose purpose is to damage the economy of the adversary.
We are witnessing the application of the ABC of illegal sanctions as a pattern that continues to this day. Today, the circumstances are different, but it is also true that Russia was preparing for the current scenario. Europe, on the other hand, seems to have forgotten the episode with Reagan and the positive consequences that came from not bowing to US interests, at that time seen as an interference in its internal affairs.
European sovereignty, today under discussion, nor that of any country, is understood in the White House.
The Nord Stream II gas pipeline would double the supply of gas to Europe without passing through the traditional transit countries, Ukraine and Poland, and would also make Germany a powerful distribution center for this resource to the rest of the countries in the area. Projections show the gradual decline of Russian gas transit through Ukraine until 2025 and the complete stop of Russian gas transit until 2030.
The change in supply routes has been paramount as, in the past, up to 80% of Russian natural gas exports to Europe transited through Ukraine. With the commissioning of the Nord Stream in 2011, the passage of Russian gas through Ukraine fell by 50%.
That year, Ukraine's state-owned gas transit company, Ukrtransgaz, estimated that the Nord Stream pipeline would deplete gas transit revenues by up to $720 million a year from 2012.
It seems that the strategic objective of the United States in the NATO confrontation with Russia regarding the gas pipeline is:
Shoot oil and gas prices with the aim of monopolizing the oil market and isolating it from Russian oil and gas.
The increase in profits for a reasonable time from this resource would provide the investment for new technologies and innovation in the field of shale .
Not least: prevent Germany from increasing its influence in Europe. It is remembered how Donald Trump pressured Angela Merkel to commit to spending a billion dollars on the construction of new port facilities for US tankers to unload natural gas for German use.
Beginning in March, German Economics Minister Robert Habeck declared that Germany is still dependent on Russian fossil fuels. Habeck said that "I would not advocate an embargo on Russian imports of fossil fuels. I would even oppose...we need these energy supplies to maintain price stability and energy security in Germany."
Germany's position with the United States is incomprehensible, leaving aside its national interest. Until now, the sanctions dynamic against Russia has focused on major Russian banks , but excluding those associated with Russian gas payment transfers.
However, Russia and its allies have not stood idly by, with strategic patience they have pressed the geopolitical scene. As long as these well-known blockade actions by the United States and its vassals continue, more paths are opened, not easy, for that multipolar world order centered on an economically integrated Eurasia, which is nourished by the international de-dollarization process already initiated by Russia and China. .
While active work is being done on the Soyuz Vostok pipeline that would send natural gas to Mongolia, which would be the continuation of the Russian gas pipeline "Power of Siberia - 2" and will allow the supply of up to 50 billion cubic meters of Russian gas per year to China, the fastest growing gas market in the world.
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Coop Anti-War Cafe Berlin Statement on the War in Ukraine
March 12, 2022
By Coop Anti-War Cafe Berlin – Mar 6, 2022
We are now witnessing heavy military clashes between Russia and Ukraine. Moscow speaks of a “special operation” in Ukraine. Moscow’s declared main motive is the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, its neutrality, and a guarantee that Ukraine will not join NATO. Moscow has explicitly and repeatedly stated that it is not fighting the civilian population of Ukraine. The West, on the other hand, speaks of a war of aggression by Russia against the people of Ukraine. Russian reporting is censored in many Western countries, and Russia in turn restricts Western broadcasters. Weapons from NATO countries continue to be delivered to Ukraine.
We are deeply concerned about the dramatic events in Ukraine and advocate a peaceful solution.
Our demands must be:
Cessation of hostilities as soon as possible!
NATO out of Ukraine!
No more arms deliveries to Ukraine!
No NATO membership of Ukraine!
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Russia withdrew from all Warsaw Pact countries, while NATO pledged that it would not expand into Eastern Europe. This was also the basis of Russia’s agreement to the reunification of Germany, which Russia agreed to on precisely this condition. However, contrary to its promises, the West has continued to expand its influence to the East and more and more countries have been allowed to become NATO members. Major US and NATO maneuvers took place on Russia’s borders and almost all arms control treaties were canceled by the US.
Western networks orchestrated a coup in Kyiv in 2014, in which openly fascist groups took part. The Ukrainian coup government, dominated by right-wing extremists, harassed the Russian-speaking minorities by banning the Russian language, among other things. There were extremely violent attacks. This resulted in Crimea’s secession to Russia, legitimized by a referendum in Crimea in which a large majority voted to join the Russian Federation. As self-protection against Russophobia in Kyiv, the self-proclaimed People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk were also declared.
The inhabitants of the People’s Republics were declared terrorists by Kyiv and a war was started with massive artillery shelling by the Ukrainian army and right-wing volunteer brigades against the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Lugansk. To date, this has claimed over 14,000 lives, mostly among the Russian-speaking population of Donbass, especially at the height of the conflict before the Minsk 2 accords. Even after Minsk 2, the government of Ukraine, heavily armed by NATO, continued to wage war against the population of Donbass, which was tolerated by the guarantors of the accords Germany and France.
Moscow has now recognized the independence of the People’s Republics. This was done on the basis of a recommendation from the Russian parliament to President Putin. Before that, the government of Putin had repeatedly urged the fulfillment of the conditions of the Minsk 2 agreement, which is binding under international law since the end of 2015, and had repeatedly asked the government in Kyiv to make it clear that it does not want to join NATO. This was repeatedly rejected by both Kyiv and NATO.
Most recently, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, created further provocations when he even expressed his intention to make Ukraine a nuclear power, at the security conference in Munich in February. Massively intensified new attacks against the People’s Republics in the Donbass and preparations to conquer these areas further aggravated the situation.
Only after that Moscow started the military operation in Ukraine, after a long period of diplomatic initiatives by Russia to resolve the conflict in Ukraine and with the West, including insisting on the implementation of the Minsk 2 agreement. The agreement had obliged Ukraine, among other things, to enter into direct negotiations with the political leadership of the Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. The hoped-for relaxation through the Minsk 2 agreement did not materialize from the start in 2015 because the Ukrainian leadership repeatedly broke the agreement, and NATO was not interested in a peaceful solution.
Russia’s offensive is said to have forestalled an imminent offensive by the Ukrainian army, according to Russian media reports.
imgAs a reaction from almost the entire West, we are now experiencing an extreme wave of punitive sanctions against Russia, as have been used so far against Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Yemen and other countries. This corresponds to warfare using economic power and is illegal. There have even been isolated calls for facilitating the recruitment of mercenaries in the fight against Putin, or for the Russian president to be assassinated.
Russia has proved that, together with China, it is ready to resolutely oppose the aggressive provocations of the West and especially NATO.
We deeply regret the situation in Ukraine, which is not in the interest of any party, and we particularly regret all the casualties and the situation of refugees in this war. The military conflicts must be ended as quickly as possible. Ukraine should serve as a bridge of communication between East and West and not as a frontline for geopolitical rivalries.
The EU, NATO and Russia must negotiate together and find a solution that takes into account the security interests of all countries. The security of one country must not come at the expense of the security of another country.
Ukraine must declare itself neutral!
Return to negotiations in the spirit of Minsk-2 Treaty!
Berlin, March 6, 2022
To sign this statement:
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Signatures
Heinrich Bücker, Coop Anti-War Café Berlin
Ingrid Koschmieder, Friedensaktivistin, Freidenkermitglied, Berlin
Maren Cronsnest, Freie Journalistin, Anti-NATO-Gruppe Berlin-Brandenburg
Leonid Ilderkin, Coordinating Council, Union of Political Emigrants & Political Prisoners of Ukraine, Russia
Ray McGovern, Veterans For Peace, Eisenhower Chapter, USA
Elizabeth Murray, ehem. hochrangige US-Geheimdienst-Mitarbeiterin & Ex-CIA-Analystin, USA
Alfred L. Marder, President, US Peace Council, USA
Eugenia Amaguaña, Mujeres en Movimiento, Hamburg
Gordana Jovanovic, University Professor em., Belgrad, Serbien
Telma Rinkes, Künstlerin, Berlin
Wolfram Elsner, Professor, Bremen
Sandra Barczyk, Mitglied aufstehen-Basis, Stuttgart
Holger Raths, 1. EOS Ernst-Thälmann, Rostock – Lichtenhagen
Andreas Maluga, 1. Vorsitzender DDR-Kabinett-Bochum e.V.
Živadin Jovanović, Ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Belgrade Serbia
Prof.Dr.sc. Horst Bischoff, Berlin,
Uta Mader, Linke Friedensbewegung, Bernau b. Berlin
Manuel Pardo, Military (Ret.), Madrid, Spain
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, Northern Ireland
Union of Political Emigrants & Political Prisoners of Ukraine
Larissa Shessler, Chair, Union Political Emigrants & Political prisoners of Ukraine, Moskau
Dmitry Niconov, Council, Union Political Emigrants & Political Prisoners of Ukraine, Moskau
Klaus Helms, Rentner, Mitglied der Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Schwerin/Meckl.
Frithjof Banisch, Oberst a.D., Dahme / Mark
Ralph Schöpke, Rentner, Hydrochemiker, PD Dr.rer.nat.habil, Cottbus
Diane Nahas, Port Washington, USA
Bruce K Gagnon, Anti-war activist, Bath, Maine, USA
Philip Janssen, Frente Unido América Latina Berlin
Lothar Häupl, Vorsitzender WIBP e.V., Dresden
Jesus Rodriguez-Espinoza, Editor at Orinoco Tribune, Caracas, Venezuela
Brigitte Tichauer, Rentnerin u. Antifaschistin, Berlin
Ortrud Staude, Musikerin, Bremen
Robert Tichauer, Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, USA
Violetta Marx, Schwerin
Ludwig Bodemann, DKP-Berlin
Wilfried Elling, Walsrode
Klaus Becker, Evry-Courcouronnes, Frankreich
Konstantin Brandt, Buchhändler, Berlin
Irene Wagner, Berlin
CC.gambeex, cook filmmaker, Berlin
Arianna Carciofo, Berlin
Sara Flounders, Co-Director, International Action Center, New York City, USA
Bodo Quart, Berlin
Prof. Gregor Putensen, Hochschullehrer i. R., Greifswald
Axel Plasa, Journalist, Berlin
Anja Mewes, Vorsitzende des Vereins der Friedensglockengesellschaft Berlin e. V.
Achim Schuster, Sozialpädagoge, Hamburg
Joe Lombardo, Coordinator, United National Antiwar Coalition, USA
Renate Döhr, Irlandgruppe Omega, Berlin, Germany
Bahman Azad, Executive Secretary, U.S. Peace Council, New Jersey, USA
Mark Burton, Denver, Colorado, USA
Kathryn Fischer, Musician, Germany
Evelin Genzel, Aufstehen, Berlin
Achim Genzel, Berlin
Vivian Weinstein, Retired Nurse (R.N.), Denver, Colorado, USA
Joachim Bonatz, Vizepräsident des OKV e.V.
Alexander Mága, Kiel
Friederike Krahl, Berlin
Immanuel Ness, Professor, New York, USA
Gunter Emmaus, Vorsitzender ISOR e.V. TIG Neubrandenburg
Fritz Mergen, Berlin
Torsten Postrach, Oltn. a.D., Mitglied VTNVAGT
Dieter Becker, Bernau OT Schönow
Lothar Schlüter, ISOR e.V. / TIG-Vorsitzender, Berlin-Weissensee
Elli Lengl, Sozialpädagogin, Marburg
Cilly Silbermann, Ernst-Thälmann-Freundeskreis, Ziegenhals-Berlin, Hamburg
Hans Bauer, Berlin
Jürgen Willner, Bremen
Frank Daniel Dorrel, Publisher of ADDICTED To WAR, Culver City USA
Rainer Ziegler, Berlin
Regina Silbermann, Sprecherin LAG Deutsch-Russische Freundschaft Sachsen, Chemnitz
Horst Braun, Dipl.Wirtschaftler/ ISOR, Neubrandenburg
Reinhard u. Gertraude Frohberg, Geithain
Sybille Roggatz, Frankfurt/Oder
Marion Schwarz, Coswig/Anhalt
Gisbert Heilemann, Polizeioberrat a.D, Zühlsdorf
Daniel Rodríguez, Berlin
Wilfried Steinfath, Berlin
Uwe Johannßon, Rostock
Hans Sauer, Berlin
Anna Schmidt, Bielefeld
Eberhard Kögel, Augsburg
Fritz Heinecke, ISOR, Berlin
Karl Herbst, Wertingen
Dr. Andrej Reder, Berlin
Wolf Göhring, Bonn
Rainer Menschik, Berlin
Brigitte Queck, Mütter gegen den Krieg Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam
Joachim Gruber, Physiker, Ankershagen
Hartmut Haubold, Berlin
Ingeborg Ohlsen, Berlin
Ursula Mathern, Merxheim
Stephan Heine, Arbeiter, Berlin
Gerd Göhler, Hennickendorf
Jochen Knödler, Bad Kreuznach
Peter Elz, Königs Wusterhauen
Lukas Maria Oßwald, Kommunalpolitiker, Lahr/Schwarzwald
Lee Eunju, Seoul, South korea
Albrecht Ludloff, Berliner Friedensbewegung
Kirsten Hüttenrauch, Berlin
Dr. Joanna Dietzel, Ärztin, Berlin
Peter Rath-Sangkhakorn, Pädagogische Arbeitsstelle (pad), Bergkamen
Albrecht Geißler, Vorsitzender Revolutionärer Freundschaftsbund E. V., Chemnitz
Constanze Wolter, Berlin
Dietrich Antelmann, Diplomkameralist, Berlin
Bernd Thümer, Rentner, Werkzeugmacher, Frankenberg
Kay Hanisch, Sprecher Bürgerbewegung Neue Richtung, Döbeln
Helge Schmidt-Heß, Neubrandenburg
Reinhard Wilder, Schwerin
Helmut Ortgies, Groß Zimmern
Horst Remest, Friedensbündnis Neubrandenburg
Dr. Nancy Larenas Ojeda, Berlin, Frente Unido America Latina
Gottfried Altemüller, Rentner, Stadtführer, Hamburg
Ulrike Braun, Laufersweiler
Larry Swingle, Schönau, Germany
Wolfgang Dr. Petzold, Arzt, Rentner, Königs Wusterhausen
Rainer Hecht, Niederneisen
Marianne Steenken, Berlin
Peter Keibel, IG BAU Berlin
Ulrich Lenz, Kreistagsmitglied, Kreissprecher Die Linke Rhein-Lahn
Wolfgang Hey, Hannover
Brigitte und Gunther Teicke, ISOR Berlin
Christian Steinkopf, Strausberg
Rolf-Achim Georg, Dipl.Ing. Architekt, Berlin
Siegbert Grießer, Hausmann, Sangerhausen
Frank Rothämel, Zella-Mehlis
Uta Schumann, Designerin /Rentnerin /Omas gegen rechts, Erfurt
Ditmar Hanke, Diez
Wolfgang Carl, Berlin
Matthias Küchler, Arzt, Berlin
Dr.med. Joachim Elz-Fianda, DFG-VK/IPPNW/Ärztlicher Psychotherapeut, Nördlingen
Isabelle Casel, Die Linke, DFG-VK, PeaceLab Europe, WIIS, Bergisch Gladbach
Claudia Beyer, Projektverantwortlich, Erfurt
Valmore Suárez, Frente Unido América Latina, Berlin
Alexander Breitung, Sozialarbeiter, Strausberg
Rainer Fritsche, Berlin
Ingo Brehmer, Berlin,
Harff-Dieter Salm, Bad Camberg
Rüdiger Hecht, Berlin
Susanne Ute Breitenbach, Berlin
Heinz und Karin Schmidt, Schwerin
Annette Heide, Berlin
Knut Voigt, Berlin
Ronald Krauß, Schwarzenberg
Hans-Jörg Schraml, EVG, VVN/BdA, Berlin
Petra Scharrelmann, Lehrerin, Bremen
Walter Friedmann, Bühl
Gerhard Mertschenk, Berlin
Jürgen Stenker, Diplomkriminalist, Halle (Saale)
Harald Kallbach, Homburg/Saar
Jürgen Suttner, Siegen
Petra Rudolph, Aue-Bad Schlema
Dr. Christel Göpel, Dresden
Brigitte Gärtner-Coulibaly, Herford NRW
Nicole Finkernagel, Viersen
Ulrich Loschky, Elmstein
Jürgen Gramm, Sicherheitsingenieur in Rente, Rochlitz
Marie-Luise Schmidt-Hage, St.Jory-de-Chalais, Frankreich
Martin Schülke und Doris Schülke, Strausberg
Vinícius Melo, Brazil
Armin Bernhard, Mitglied “Deutsch-Russische Friedenstage e.V.”.
Gina Pietsch, Sängerin, Berlin
Marina Baum, Berlin
Georg Ehmke, Werder
Peter Rasch, Neusäß
Jürgen Weidner, Plauen
Arnd Kempe, Berlin
Ernst Hornig, Oberrat a.D., GRH, Berlin
Ute Hornig, Rentnerin, Friedenglockengesellschaft, Berlin
Stefan Irkens, Prüfingenieur, Hennef
Peter Theil, Panketal
Manfred Theil, Rentner Unterstützer der Bewegung Aufstehen, Berlin
Roland und Roswitha Winkler, Aue
Heinz Klein, Attac, Freidenker, Waldalgesheim
Daniel Palloks, Physiker, Berlin
Ilse Günther, Berlin
Eberhard Wetzig, Pirna
Dr.med. Michael Kärn, Arzt, Schwerin
Peter Kebsch, Lehrer, Grimma
Helga Dr. Lemme, Aufstehen /Kinderärztin, Leipzig
Karen Breuer, Berlin
Ulf Lehnert, Lehrte
Angelika Dörre, Neubrandenburg
Ria Kaiser, Crinitz
TM Rotschönberg, freischaffender Maler, Obergruna
Wolfgang Diertich, Strasburg (Um.)
Peter Krips, Fotograf, Perleberg
Jochen Scholz, Oberstleutnant a. D., Berlin
Iris Becker, Sollstedt
Matthias Zöltsch, Augenoptiker, Heimsheim
Joachim Herzog, Schulzendorf
Karin Pflug, Quedlinburg
Burkhard Pflug, Quedlinburg
Torsten Trentzsch, RFB, Meißen
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Protesters shouting to snipers in the Maidan-controlled Hotel Ukraina after receiving fire from that direction (VRT Video). (Photo: Video Appendix C)
The Maidan massacre in Ukraine: revelations from trials and investigations
Originally published: Jordan Russian Center by Ivan Katchanovski (December 8, 2021 ) - Posted Dec 11, 2021
My paper and several video compilations presented recently at the virtual 10th World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies in Montreal examined evidence revealed by the ongoing trial and government investigation into the Maidan massacre in Ukraine. This massacre of protesters and police during the Euromaidan mass protests on February 20, 2014 not only constituted a major crime and human rights violation, but also contributed to a cascading series of events. These included the overthrow of the Ukrainian government, the start of the civil war in Donbas, Russian military interventions in Crimea and Donbas, the Russian annexation of Crimea, and, ultimately, major and protracted conflicts between Ukraine and Russia, on the one hand, and Russia and the West, on the other. The Maidan massacre trial and investigation produced overwhelming evidence that Maidan protesters were massacred by snipers at Maidan-controlled buildings, rather than by government snipers or Berkut policemen—who were nevertheless charged with the crime.
The evidence includes videos, testimonies by over 100 wounded protesters, several dozen prosecution witnesses, and forensic ballistic and medical examinations by government experts. With some exceptions, these revelations were not reported by the Ukrainian or Western media, which from the start blamed government snipers and the Berkut police for killing Maidan protesters, allegedly on the orders of then-President Yanukovych. My study analyzed several hundred hours of video recordings of the Maidan massacre trial, which is streamed on YouTube.
Videos presented at the trial confirmed my previous study findings, which showed that specific times of shooting of the absolute majority of the protesters did not coincide with times of shooting by the Berkut and the directions of their shooting. This visual evidence alone shows that the Berkut did not massacre at least the absolute majority of killed and wounded Maidan protesters. Synchronized and time-stamped videos confirmed that at least three protesters were killed before the special Berkut police unit, which is charged with their massacre, was even deployed in the Maidan. Unreleased segments of the most famous video of the Maidan massacre showed two Maidan protesters luring a group of other protesters to the massacre area shortly before the shooting began. One protester was shouting to these others not to follow them because snipers were shooting at demonstrators from the Hotel Ukraina, which was then controlled by the Maidan, adding that he saw gunshot flashes there. This Belgian VRT TV video, which was revealed at the trial and provided to the author by VRT, showed a bullet hitting a tree behind this group of the protesters, following which they pointed back towards the Hotel Ukraina and entreated the snipers not to shoot them.The absolute majority (47 out of 72) of wounded protesters, with whose attempted murders the Berkut policemen are charged, testified that they were shot by snipers from Maidan-controlled buildings or witnessed such snipers there. At least 28 wounded protesters testified that they were shot from the direction of the Hotel Ukraina and other Maidan-controlled buildings or areas. At least 30 wounded protesters testified that they witnessed snipers there and/or were told during the massacre about snipers in these Maidan-controlled locations by other protesters.
A wounded Maidan protester testifies about snipers in the Maidan-controlled Hotel Ukraina
(Photo: Video Appendix D)
Even the government investigation determined, based on their testimonies and investigative experiments, that almost half, 77 out of 157 protesters, were not wounded from Berkut positions, and did not charge anyone with their shooting. The evidence suggests that they were shot from Maidan-controlled areas. Indeed, both videos and testimony by the commanders of government sniper and counter-sniper units revealed that that government snipers arrived when nearly all the victims had already been killed. A minority of wounded protesters testified at the trial or at the investigation that they were shot by government snipers or Berkut police. But most of these testimonies are not consistent with their wound directions in forensic medical examinations, or their positions in videos.
The prosecution, and recently the Maidan massacre trial, refused to classify a Maidan female medic as a victim in the trial of the Berkut policemen. She was turned into a Maidan “icon” after tweeting that she was dying shortly after she was filmed on the Maidan running to an ambulance with blood on her clothes. She testified as a witness in this trial that she was wounded from the direction of the Maidan-controlled Hotel Ukraina based on her reported entry and exit wounds in the neck.
However, she admitted in an interview with a Ukrainian journalist that she was not wounded. This Ukrainian journalist reported that a Maidan activist revealed to him that the wounding of this Maidan medic was staged by the Maidan Self-Defense leadership and that she misrepresented wounds from a recent surgery as sustained during protests. After six years, a Ukrainian police investigation determined, based on confessions by fellow activists and findings by forensic medical experts, that her “crucifixion” and “torture” wounds were made in sterile conditions. These investigators also found that the highly publicized kidnapping and crucifixion of another Maidan activist was staged.
Dozens of members and commanders from government sniper units testified at the trial as prosecution witnesses. Yet their testimony showed that their units were ordered to deploy to government-controlled areas near the Maidan in order to locate and neutralize snipers, who in turn killed or wounded the Berkut policemen. They testified that, after their arrival, mass shooting practically stopped, yet that they came under fire from Maidan-controlled buildings.
The government investigation had earlier determined that Yanukovych government snipers could be held responsible for the death of only a single Maidan protester. Meanwhile, two other demonstrators who had been nearby during his killing, testified that he, too, was shot from a Maidan-controlled building. Photos and forensic examinations by government experts revealed that he was shot in the back from a steep angle by a corroded bullet as he faced the government positions.
Yet despite the overwhelming evidence, the investigation ultimately denied that there were snipers in Maidan-controlled buildings. It is striking that, almost eight years after one of the best-documented cases of mass murder in history, nobody is convicted or under arrest for the Maidan massacre.
https://mronline.org/2021/12/11/the-mai ... n-ukraine/
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Number of Extremists and Neo-Nazis in Europe Will Increase as They Flee Ukraine
Posted by INTERNATIONALIST 360° on MARCH 13, 2022
Vladimir Odintsov
Fleeing from wars, armed conflicts and various militant activities, migrants from Africa and Asia continue to make risky attempts to enter the EU by various means, often using risky and perilous routes. However, streams of refugees in Europe have increased in recent days amid the events in Ukraine.
So, after the outright genocide of the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine by Kiev’s neo-Nazi authorities, especially in Donbass, where, according to incomplete figures, more than 13,000 citizens of that country have died in the last eight years, almost 200,000 refugees have already taken refuge in Russia in recent days.
The EU media also have their own figures on refugees from Ukraine to Europe. The number of refugees who have arrived in Poland since the start of the military operation is reported to have exceeded 922,000. More than 200,000 Ukrainians have arrived in tiny Moldova with a population of 2.6 million. European diplomacy chief Josep Borrell, who has always stirred up Russophobic hysteria, said at a press conference on March 7 following an informal EU Council meeting in Montpellier that “some 5 million refugees from Ukraine will enter the EU member states.”
However, the EU leadership, which avoids publicizing truthful information about what is happening in Ukraine, deliberately glosses over the fact that thousands of refugees from Ukraine and non-Ukrainians are being returned to their countries of origin by the European authorities. For example, tengrinews.kz has repeatedly reported on the removal of hundreds of allegedly “Ukrainian” refugees from Central Asia from Europe to the capital of Kazakhstan.
The number of similar “refugee” Uzbek nationals has exceeded 2,500. More than 1,400 people are still waiting for their turn in Poland, Podrobno.uz reported on March 4, quoting the Polish Foreign Ministry. The first plane with Uzbek nationals evacuated from Ukraine to Poland left the city of Katowice on February 28, Uzbekistan’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Yusup Kabulzhanov wrote in his Telegram channel.
Tajikistan’s ambassador to Ukraine, Davlat Nazrizoda, told Asia-Plus about Tajik nationals fleeing Ukraine for Europe, who number about 4,000 not counting former citizens of the republic who accepted Ukrainian citizenship. Their evacuation to Central Asia after arrival in the EU is also on schedule.
However, even to the uninitiated observer a strong difference in the composition of the “Ukrainian refugees” to Russia and Europe is striking. For example, while the border with the Russian Federation is crossed by women, children and elderly people fleeing extermination by Ukrainian militants, the picture on the border with European states is quite different. They are, as the social media in Moldova in particular point out, mostly sturdy Ukrainian guys of conscription age, clearly not poor and with short Nazi haircuts. This inadvertently suggests that in this case we are dealing with fleeing fighters of numerous nationalist battalions, who openly fear retribution for their crimes as a result of Moscow’s westward push for a special operation to demilitarize and denazify the Ukrainian military. There is a very strong reaction to the use of any language other than Ukrainian when communicating with them and a desire to engage in conflict and violent confrontation with those around them.
There is already a lot of information about their behavior on social media in European countries, which does not describe these Ukrainian “refugees” in a positive light. For example, an Israeli citizen was reportedly killed in late February, according to 9tv.co.il and the international branch of the Jewish volunteer organization ZAKA. “A 37-year-old Jewish-Israeli man was shot dead while trying to leave Ukraine in the direction of the state border to join a guarded bus convoy and leave Ukraine,” ZAKA said in a statement.
In the Italian city of Bologna, two truckers from Belarus were killed by similar “refugees” near their cars in a car park on March 1. A witness, a CIS truck driver, said the crime was committed by eleven Ukrainians. “A boy was stabbed to death, he was 26 years old. Why? Because he just had Belarusian number plates,” said the driver, who recorded the incident on his phone camera and uploaded it to his Telegram channel named Mash.
On March 4, Italian media reported another incident in a supermarket in Brescia, Italy, where Moldovan nationals were hurt by a radical Ukrainian who started an argument about a military conflict with Russia and, as “an argument for his version of the conflict”, stabbed one of his opponents in the cheek and flank and another in the neck and then fled. It is also reported that Ukrainian refugees in Moldova are behaving brazenly and aggressively, with increasing instances of insults and fights with the staff of institutions. Ukrainian refugees arriving in Moldova complain that swimming pools do not operate in some hotels, they present passports of Ukrainian citizens in restaurants and demand free service. This was reported by a Moldovan volunteer who witnessed the defiant behavior of the so-called “Ukrainian refugees”. Chisinau municipal authorities have even asked the police to beef up security at Ukrainian refugee sites, and local volunteers have requested for the border to be closed.
Angelina Peregenska, a resident of Hungarian Transcarpathia, expressed outrage that refugees from Kiev complain about their reception conditions, “sit in bars and drink vodka”, insult locals and disrespect Hungarian, while already wanting to rule everything.
Tadeusz Rydzyk, a well-known priest of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and head of the religious and political radio station Radio Maria, has warned his parishioners that yesterday’s illegal migrants from the Middle East and Africa, who unsuccessfully tried to enter the country through Belarus last year, are coming to Poland disguised as Ukrainian refugees.
However, today many media are already talking about Nazi-racial discrimination in Ukraine against foreign nationals who happen to be in the country. For example, dark-skinned Ukrainians fleeing the country in the wake of recent events have faced prejudice because of their skin color, ABC News confirms. As the channel’s correspondent found out, Africans were not allowed on trains leaving for the west, and one group was even almost forced to take part in the defense of Ukraine. Many refugees of foreign origin face racism in Ukraine, ABC News reported in another of its correspondences. In particular, there have been recorded cases of Ukrainian border guards and police giving priority to white citizens and not allowing people of Indian or African descent to pass. Moreover, foreigners are at times insulted and even attacked. However, there has been no active reaction from the “democratic West” on this issue with regard to the Kiev authorities, which amounts in effect to encouragement of Kiev’s Nazi-racial policies.
Most Ukrainian refugees go primarily to Poland, Hungary and Slovakia. They have also started arriving in the Balkans, Radoš Đurović, director of the Serbian Refugee Protection Center, told the Tanjug news agency.
In addition, a massive wave of refugees from Ukraine is gradually sweeping Germany as well, with Berlin becoming the first federal land of Germany to declare it, Süddeutsche Zeitung says. However, most refugees arriving in Berlin by train continue on their way and other federal lands confirm this fact. Germany’s “appeal” to Ukrainian refugees is due to a number of reasons. First and foremost, the desire to get even closer to the historical roots of Nazism. Moreover, Ukrainians are not required to register in Germany. They are entitled to stay for 90 days without a visa and only after that, i.e. if they plan to stay for a longer period, special EU rules start to apply. According to these rules, refugees from Ukraine can stay in Germany for one year without going through the asylum procedure. This period may be extended to three years. They also hope to take advantage of the law on Residence, Economic Activity and Integration of Foreigners in Germany, according to which military refugees are entitled to social benefits and access to the labor market. All costs in this case are borne by the federal lands.
In addition to the current German authorities’ blatant support for the Nazi regime in Kiev, they have made a number of additional “favors” available to such Ukrainian “refugees” with characteristic UPA hairstyles. “We want to apply for the first time the legal framework created after the Balkan wars. This means that refugees from Ukraine will not have to go through the asylum procedure. They will receive temporary protection in the EU for up to three years,” German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said. In other words, today it is possible for such “UPA boys” to go to the EU quite legally simply on the basis of having Ukrainian citizenship. And stay there for the next three years on welfare.
Therefore, in addition to pumping neo-Nazi-minded Ukrainians into EU territory, this category of “refugees” expects to use the conflict currently taking place to migrate legally to the EU and “join official Europeans.”
And the fact that this wave will thereby cause a rise in crime in Europe and neo-Nazism, which only Russia has so far decided to fight in its special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukrainian society, will become fully clear to Europeans in the very next few days.
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2022/03/ ... e-ukraine/
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Macron and Scholz began to persuade Zelensky to surrender - insider
According to the Ukrainian telegram channel Resident, France and Germany consider it pointless to further resist the Kiev regime.
Western leaders began to put pressure on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to accept Russia's terms for ending the military operation. This is reported by the Ukrainian telegram channel " Resident" close to the Office of the President, citing a source .
"World leaders began to persuade Zelensky to accept Russia's demands for the recognition of the LDNR / Crimea and the non-bloc status of Ukraine," the message says.
According to the channel's informant, French leaders Emmanuel Macron and Germany Olaf Scholz promise to provide loans to Ukraine for the restoration of infrastructure and convince Zelensky of the futility of further war for Ukraine.
https://novorosinform.org/makron-i-shol ... 91621.html
Google Translator
As a result of Russian strikes on the centers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Western Ukraine, 180 mercenaries were destroyed
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation promised to continue the destruction of foreign fighters arriving in Ukraine.
180 foreign mercenaries were killed as a result of missile strikes on the training centers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the village of Starichi and at the military training ground Yavorovskiy in the Lviv region. This was announced at a briefing by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Igor Konashenkov.
According to him, at these facilities, the Ukrainian Nazi regime deployed a point for the preparation and combat coordination of foreign mercenaries before being sent to the areas of hostilities against Russian military personnel.
Weapons and military equipment supplied from abroad were transferred there for storage. As a result of the strike of Russian missiles, up to 180 foreign mercenaries and a large consignment of foreign weapons were destroyed.
"The destruction of foreign mercenaries who arrived on the territory of Ukraine will continue," Konashenkov stressed.
https://novorosinform.org/v-rezultate-u ... 91629.html
Google Translator
Cleansing of Mariupol and complete liberation of Donbass. Battle for Ukraine: Live Stream
Russian troops are developing a strategic advantage by penetrating deep into Ukraine.
The Russian leader said in his address that Moscow's goal is the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.
TEXT ONLINE BROADCAST
March 13
17:31 The Pentagon said that the US military was not at the base in the Lviv region
17:22 Progress in negotiations between Russia and Ukraine may soon develop into a common position - Slutsky
16:56 Sullivan: US will be able to provide military assistance to Ukraine, despite Russia's statements about convoys
16:55 The NYT reported that journalist Brent Renault, who died in Ukraine, did not work for the publication
16:51 In Croatia, they reported traces of explosives on fragments of a drone that fell in Zagreb
16:05 Turkey asked Russia for support for the evacuation of its citizens from Mariupol
16:00 The DPR warned of the threat of a complete cessation of water supply to Donetsk
15:55 In the LPR, they said they discovered places of massacre of civilians
15:28 MEP from Italy believes that the EU contributed to the escalation of the conflict over Ukraine
15:17 Turkey asked Russia for support for the evacuation of its citizens from Mariupol
15:01 Podolyak: Israel and Turkey can help organize Zelensky's meeting with Putin
14:52 Zolotov: The National Guard and the RF Armed Forces continue to achieve the goals of the special operation in Ukraine
14:51 Patriarch Kirill said that the Ukrainian authorities have increased pressure on the UOC
14:37 Turkey assured that they would not join Western sanctions against Russia
13:39 India has decided to move its embassy in Ukraine to Poland
12:05 As a result of a missile attack on the Yavoriv test site, 9 soldiers of the Ukrainian army and foreign instructors were killed and 57 wounded – Lviv regional administration
11:55 Bastrykin instructed to open a case on the shelling of a hospital in Volnovakha
11:21 Russian Defense Ministry: Russian military delivered more than 40 tons of humanitarian aid to the Kiev region
11:16 Borrell: creation of a no-fly zone over Ukraine could lead to a third world war
10:56 Basurin: a group of Nazis fled from Mariupol to the Zaporozhye region
10:15 Military released civilians and monks taken hostage by the Nazis near Volnovakha - Russian Defense Ministry
10:10 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: the military destroyed 3,687 objects of the military infrastructure of Ukraine
09:45 Russian VSK launched a missile attack on the NATO instructor base near Lvov
09:35 More than 140 foreigners were evacuated to Crimea from Ukraine
09:21 The Russian Defense Ministry showed how the Krasnopol high-precision projectile destroys the command post of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
https://novorosinform.org/zachistka-mar ... 91617.html
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This is the 73-year-old French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy. Also known as BHL (or BAL in Russian).
