Novorossia/ Ukraine update 6\14\2015..provocations as its official strategy

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When Graham Met Texas

A train with 203-mm self-propelled gun 2S7 “Pion

AGS-17 grenade launcher Novorossians rebels firing at the checkpoint Ukrainian army

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Early in the morning of June 12 AFU conducted powerful shelling of Gorlovka, during which the city suffered severe damage, and the child died – 11-years-old girl – in the house 53

Gorlovka. Direct hit in md Komsomolets. Video

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Terrific destruction in the town of Pervomaisk (LPR).

A direct hit at position of AFU 93th brigade with a tank. Video 18+

Ukrainian security forces fired at positions of the militia.

Pervomaisk private sector suffered from shelling by the AFU. Video

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The Ukrainian government is using the military conflict in Donbass to justify its failures, the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger reported.

Such decisions by Kiev as the Transnistria blockade and the appointment of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili as Odessa’s governor may spark serious foreign and domestic tensions. If the conflict in Transnistria escalates, it may turn into another war in which the Ukrainian government should not be interested. However, Kiev seems to have adopted such provocations as its official strategy, journalist Zita Affentranger wrote.

The author of the article also believes that the recently adopted de-communization law could be considered one of those provocative measures.

The Ukrainian government does not care that the so called de-communization policy offends many Ukrainians, especially in the country’s east. Kiev claims its goal is to provide a good example of democracy and freedom, the article says.

The Ukrainian government is not implementing any effective reforms, the author wrote. Instead of addressing actual issues, Kiev prefers to discuss joining the EU and NATO and blames Russia for its own flaws.

Nevertheless, Kiev’s anti-Russian policy is losing support among the people, even in Ukraine’s west. Anti-government and protest sentiments are now on the rise, the newspaper claims: 95 percent of Ukrainians are concerned with economic problems, and 80 percent say that the Maidan coup has not rooted out corruption.

Ordinary Ukrainians want to bring the war to an end, but the powers that be have opposite goals, Tages-Anzeiger wrote. For instance, Ukrainian oligarchs have strengthened their positions using volunteer battalions which can be actually considered private armies. The government is also taking advantage of the military conflict, because reports from the battlefield distract public attention from actual corruption and economic problems, the article reads.

Ukrainians and the country’s Western partners are now opening their eyes to see that the so called “revolution of dignity” has changed nothing and the country remains mired in the same range of problems it has always faced, the journalist concludes.

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Ukrainian MPs All Set to Gag Free Flow of Information From Donbass

A bipartisan bill, submitted earlier this week, calls for a ban on all information about the hostilities in Donbass without prior permission from the top military brass.

If approved, the bill will become part of the existing “antiterrorism laws” and will entail legal punishment for the publication in the media or on social networks of information pertaining to the deployment of the Ukrainian armed forces, their combat readiness, equipment, etc.

Violation of any of these provisions will be punishable by up to four years behind bars. If such information is spread by a government official or via a media outlet, this will carry a jail sentence of up to six years.

“This will send us all back to the times of [former President Viktor] Yanukovych and even [Josef] Stalin!” fumed MP Olga Chervakova from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc.

“As a member of the biggest pro-government faction in parliament, I will do my best to prevent this primitive piece of legislative thought from ever being adopted,” she added.

On Friday the Verhovna Rada approved a draft law which conditionally bans the use of mobile phones by Ukrainian military personnel deployed in the Donbass war zone.