KIEV, May 14 (Xinhua) -- Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk said Thursday that Kiev will not agree to further delay implementing the Association Agreement with the European Union (EU) , which includes a comprehensive free trade deal, despite concerns raised by Russia.
"The free trade pact will take effect on Jan. 1, 2016," Yatsenyuk told a cabinet meeting.
He added that Ukraine is already getting prepared for functioning of the deal through implementing reforms in the agricultural sector.
"We do our utmost to bring the quality of our agricultural products in line with European standards. This is our commitment in the framework of the free trade pact," Yatsenyuk said.
The Association Agreement, which removes tariffs on around 90 percent of the goods traded between Ukraine and the EU, was signed in June last year.
In September 2014, the 28-member block has postponed implementation of the deal till Dec. 31, 2015, saying it needs time to discuss "whatever problem may arise" with Kiev and Moscow.
Russia has warned that the Ukraine-EU pact would allow European products to flood Russia via Ukraine without import duties as Kiev and Moscow have a free trade area within the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
Last week, Russian ambassador to the EU Vladimir Chizov appealed to the leadership of the 28-member block asking to postpone the deal with Ukraine for another year as controversial issues over its effect were not fully settled.
flamming_python wrote:Opposition was suppressed by force? I wonder why that was never a problem for the Crimea and not a problem for long for the Donbass.
I wonder why none of these things were a problem for the Crimea and Donbass. Why they actually got up off their asses and did something, while the plankton in other reigons waited around to get repressed, beaten, torched, etc... and still do. While Nazi-hooligans from other regions run around their cities like hyenas and beat-up anyone they don't like, while their language is being pushed out of government, while WW2 collaborators are honoured in the Verkhovna Rada by the illegitimate president.
I am not trying to make excuses. I am merely trying to understand why Crimea and Donbass are opposing anti-Russian Ukrainian nationalism, but other regions accepted it in the end. That's all.
The following map will show you why.. elections in 2012 ... blue zones are the zones where Russians or Pro Russian ukrainians live. and voted for Yakunovych. The other colors were for Timoshenko pro NATO.. SImply Ukrainian zones near Russia ,are closer to Russia.. and Ukrainian zones near Poland are closer to NATO.
There are no armed revolutions in Kharkiv ,Mariupol and Odessa because people there were not very organized and the revolution was supresed by police.
LifeNews via Google Translate wrote:Из-за насилия начальства срочники ВСУ активно вступают в армию ЛНР Because of the violence of the authorities conscripts APU actively join the army LC 17:11 May 15, 2015
Military refugees told LifeNews violence and abuse on the part of the Kiev military.
Conscripts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine escape from their units to join the army of the LC. From the villages controlled by volunteer units, young people break into the territory of the republic, in order to avoid violence, threats of execution by the Kiev military. Only after experienced bullying conscripts resolved to side with the militia to drive out troops from the occupied territory.
- To expel the Ukrainian army from our land ... raped girls take all machines, even sidushki new mail is sent. In the shop go, take the goods and say Poroshenko will pay for everything. If the car is taken, then we say that after the war to return, - says Sergey.
To avoid service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine Sergey escaped with a friend, but under stanitsey Luhansk young people detained by the battalion "Black Hundreds." Military torture escapees. Continue reading.
Андрій Дзиндзя wrote:War in Shyrokyno
Reuters wrote:Vladimir Putin calls Ukraine fascist and country’s new law helps make his case By Josh Cohen May 14, 2015
As Ukraine continues its battle against separatists, corruption and a collapsing economy, it has taken a dangerous step that could further tear the country apart: Ukraine’s parliament, the Supreme Rada, passed a draft law last month honoring organizations involved in mass ethnic cleansing during World War Two.
The draft law — which is now on President Petro Poroshenko’s desk awaiting his signature — recognizes a series of Ukrainian political and military organizations as “fighters for Ukrainian independence in the 20th century” and bans the criticism of these groups and their members. (The bill doesn’t state the penalty for doing so.) Two of the groups honored — the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) — helped the Nazis carry out the Holocaust while also killing close to 100,000 Polish civilians during World War Two.
The law is part of a recent trend of contemporary Ukrainian nationalism promoted by those on the extreme right to break with the country’s Communist past and emphasize Ukraine’s suffering under the Soviet regime. In addition to the moral problem of forbidding the criticism of Holocaust perpetrators, the law hinders Ukraine’s European ambitions — and validates Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claims that the country is overrun by neo-Nazis. Continue reading.
TASS wrote:Russia hopes NATO will stop attempts of absorbing Georgia, Ukraine — envoy World May 15, 16:41 UTC+3
Russia’s envoy to NATO said division lines may be created inside Ukraine and Georgia in case of the counties' consistent rapprochement with NATO
MOSCOW, May 15. /TASS/. Moscow expects that NATO will stop attempts of absorbing Georgia and Ukraine into the alliance, Russia’s envoy to NATO Alexander Grushko said on Friday during a Moscow-Brussels video linkup.
Moscow sees NATO’s consistent rapprochement with Georgia in an effort to switch the country’s armed forces to NATO standards and to integrate it in the alliance, the diplomat said.
"But there are many realistic people in NATO and many understand the risks of the thoughtless ‘open door policy’," he said.
"Such development of events could result in serious consequences for the European security," the diplomat said. "In case with Ukraine and Georgia, division lines may be created inside the countries," he said.
"I believe that common sense will prevail and such thoughtless attempts will be abandoned," Grushko stressed. Continue reading.
TASS wrote:Ukraine urges debt restructuring talks with international creditors World May 15, 18:28 UTC+3
Ukraine’s $15.3 billion debt restructuring is a critical part of the plan for financial stabilization in the ex-Soviet republic, the Ukrainian finance minister said
TBILISI, May 15. /TASS/. Ukraine’s Finance Ministry has urged international creditors to start sovereign debt restructuring talks to alleviate the country’s debt burden and normalize the economic situation in Ukraine, Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko said on Friday.
"We have no other possibility for achieving economic stability without successful debt restructuring," Yaresko said at an annual conference held by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
"It is important that our creditors should understand this. I would request them to be constructive, sit down to a negotiating table in an open manner and responsibly. We need to hold negotiations in the near future," the Ukrainian finance minister said, adding the debt restructuring required trimming coupon payments and payments at face value along with extending maturity dates. Continue reading.
TASS wrote:Former PM: Ukrainian authorities destroy Donbas as they don’t consider it their region World May 15, 19:04 UTC+3
"The fact that they [the Ukrainian authorities] are destroying the southeastern regions using artillery and the Grad rocket launchers means that they don’t consider it their region," Azarov said
MOSCOW, May 15. /TASS/. The purposeful destruction of the infrastructure in southeastern Ukraine attests to the fact that the authorities in Kiev don’t regard it as their region, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolay Azarov told the Rossiya-24 TV channel.
"The lion’s share of GDP was created in the southeast of Ukraine, the lion’s share of the budget revenue used to be collected in the southeastern regions and was redistributed to the subsidized regions," Azarov said.
According to him, Ukraine had 21 subsidized regions. "If Kiev subsidized Donbas, then a simple question arises: at the expense of what region? At the expense of Ivano-Frankovsk or Ternopol? Of course not," the former prime minister said.
"The fact that they [the Ukrainian authorities] are destroying the southeastern regions using artillery and the Grad rocket launchers means that they don’t consider it their region," he noted.
Ukraine’s Premier Arseniy Yatsenyuk earlier told various media outlets that Donbas was a subsidized region with its budget in the red.
Nikolay Azarov headed Ukraine’s government between March 11, 2010, and January 28, 2014. Continue reading.
TASS wrote:Kiev’s military operation inflicted $100 mln damage on Donetsk region — ombudsman World May 15, 19:35 UTC+3
The cities of Donetsk and Makeyevka have suffered most, with 6,066 and 1,016 facilities, respectively, either damaged or destroyed, according to the DPR's ombudsman report
MOSCOW, May 15. /TASS/. Kiev’s military operation in east Ukraine’s Donetsk region has damaged over 9,500 facilities, inflicting a total damage of over 2 billion hryvnia (about $100 million), according to a report published by Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) ombudsman Daria Morozova on Friday.
"As of May 8, 2015, the armed hostilities in the region damaged or destroyed 9,538 infrastructure facilities with damage estimated at over 2 billion hryvnia," the report said.
The cities of Donetsk and Makeyevka have suffered most, with 6,066 and 1,016 facilities, respectively, either damaged or destroyed, according to the report.
Overall, Kiev’s military operation has destroyed over 5,300 houses, 605 electricity transmission lines, 53 health care facilities and 252 educational establishments in the DPR, the report said.
Thousands have been killed and hundreds of thousands of people have fled Ukraine’s embattled east as a result of clashes between Ukrainian troops and local militias in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions during Kiev’s military operation, launched in mid-April 2014 to regain control over parts of the breakaway territories, which call themselves the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics. Continue reading.
TASS wrote:DPR says Ukraine’s Security Service preparing terrorist acts in run-up to EU summit World May 15, 19:55 UTC+3
"Our agents say the SBU on Thursday got down to implementing a plan for a series of terrorist acts [...] so as to accuse us of crimes against humanity," DPR Defence Ministry spokesman said
MOSCOW, May 15. /TASS/. Military intelligence of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic has uncovered the efforts of the Ukrainian Security Service SBU to organize a chain of terrorist acts in Donetsk, Eduard Basurin, the official spokesman of the DPR Defence Ministry told a news briefing on Friday.
He said the terrorist acts would most likely be organized in the run-up to an EU summit in Riga.
"Our agents say the SBU on Thursday got down to implementing a plan for a series of terrorist acts that will be carried out within a week so as to accuse us of crimes against humanity," Basurin said.
In part, such acts will likely be staged on the Mariupol-Volodarskoye and Privolnoye-Kasyanovka automobile roads and in the vicinity of the Stary Krym township, he indicated.
"Explosions of landmines or shelling of passenger busses and small cars from artillery weapons is possible there," Basurin said. He recalled that Kiev had more than once demonstrated its capability to resort to the most audacious steps and organize terrorist acts against civilians in the areas of Donbas under its control.
Such actions usually precede important international events, Basurin said. Continue reading.
TASS wrote:Ukrainian combat activities threatening ceasefire near Shirokino — Russia’s OSCE envoy World May 15, 21:44 UTC+3
Kelin is doubtful that relevant agreements would be negotiated at a next meeting of the working group in charge of military affairs at the Contact Group on resolving the Ukraine conflict
VIENNA, May 15. /TASS/. Activity of volunteer battalions near the village of Shirokino in embattled Donbas hampers the conclusion of an agreement on a local ceasefire, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Andrei Kelin told TASS on Friday. Kelin is doubtful that relevant agreements would be negotiated at a next meeting of the working group in charge of military affairs at the Contact Group on resolving the Ukraine conflict. "All this is not so realistic since Ukrainian forces, especially volunteer battalions, are interfering, and in particular, are hampering the OSCE observers’ work," he said adding "Azov battalion fighters have been occupying an OSCE permanent observation point in the area of Shirokino for about two weeks and they have not abandoned it yet." At the same time, Kelin underscored that participants of the Contact Group "are exerting all the efforts for reaching agreements to stop reciprocal shelling and to disengage troops near Shirokino.". Continue reading.
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flamming_python wrote:Opposition was suppressed by force? I wonder why that was never a problem for the Crimea and not a problem for long for the Donbass.
I wonder why none of these things were a problem for the Crimea and Donbass. Why they actually got up off their asses and did something, while the plankton in other reigons waited around to get repressed, beaten, torched, etc... and still do. While Nazi-hooligans from other regions run around their cities like hyenas and beat-up anyone they don't like, while their language is being pushed out of government, while WW2 collaborators are honoured in the Verkhovna Rada by the illegitimate president.
I am not trying to make excuses. I am merely trying to understand why Crimea and Donbass are opposing anti-Russian Ukrainian nationalism, but other regions accepted it in the end. That's all.
The following map will show you why.. elections in 2012 ... blue zones are the zones where Russians or Pro Russian ukrainians live. and voted for Yakunovych. The other colors were for Timoshenko pro NATO.. SImply Ukrainian zones near Russia ,are closer to Russia.. and Ukrainian zones near Poland are closer to NATO.
There are no armed revolutions in Kharkiv ,Mariupol and Odessa because people there were not very organized and the revolution was supresed by police.
Yanukovych wasn't even pro Russia. The only reason much of the east voted for him was because he is a native of Donetsk.
Ukraine Shuts Down Independent Media Outlet, Arrests Journalists
Ukraine's security forces have shut down an Odessa-based local media outlet and arrested its employees as part of a growing media crackdown.
Ukraine's Security Service and Prosecutor's Office have shut down the Odessa-based independent local news outlet Timer and jailed its chief editor Yuri Tkachov, as well as three journalists and the website's administrator, according to Ukrainian media and the outlet's Facebook page.
The shutdown follows a search of the Kiev-based Vesti newspaper's offices and the unsolved murder of Ukrainian opposition journalist Oles Buzina.
"A search is ongoing at the apartment of the Odessa internet-publication Timer Yuri Tkachov," an official in the Odessa state administration told Ukrainian media.
Flagship Victory wrote: Yanukovych wasn't even pro Russia. The only reason much of the east voted for him was because he is a native of Donetsk.
He promoted good relations with Russia and Europe.. and not joining NATO.. He made alliance with Communist parties.. so obviously he was friendly to Russia.. Even though he wanted to join the European Union.. at the same time he welcomed to renew contract with Russia naval port and distance from any serious cooperation with NATO.. He was neutral.. but promoted close relations with Russia.
Timoshenko in the other hand who lost.. promoted NATO integration.. which is a major threat for Russia security ... Yakunovych never asked to join NATO. What he wanted is to get a good deal from both sides.. best of the both.. He even promoted ukraine to become a bridge between Europe Union and Russia.. So he was neutral.. and while Yakunovych was in power ,the rights of Russian minorities was never in question.. The most important thing in all this.. is that he WON the elections legally ,recognized by UN ,US and Europe ,promoting good relations Russia. So if you look at the political map above of Ukraine.. you will see that.. The distribution of support between pro Russia and Pro west.. is directly connected with geography.. the close the territory is to Russia the closer is the support for Russia. the people who lived near Russia had family members working in Russia.. and the people who lived near Poland had family members working in Poland.. and in central ukraine the votes were more balanced.. The 2012 elections shows that the vast majority of Ukrainians are either Pro Russia or neutral.. Vast majority because the the terrorist parties.. that now are in power after the coup..(like Right Sector and Svoda)better know as neonazis..and that openly are very hostile to Russia ,only win 5% of the elections. Putin and Russia not even had major security problems with when Timoshenko ,was in power.. eve thought she was pro NATO and Pro EU.. she at least at that time ,had door opens for Business with Russia.. The problem now in Ukraine.. is that USA too control of it.. and Half the parliement is controlled now.. illegally by the Criminal factions ,the hit mans ,who are under direct control of the CIA and they are used to keep in check any politician who dares to become closer to Russia.. Effectively Ukraine today is hostage of US government and no matter who leads in ukraine.. as long as you have those criminals with so much Power and the CIA in control of Ukraine top military.. and police.. no President will dare to move away from US policies..
That said.. US Government have a really strong control of Ukraine..and only a major coup or revolution can return democracy there. that could come after the total collapse of Ukraine economy.
The National Bank of Ukraine and People's Bank of China have signed a currency swap deal worth 15 billion yuan ($2.36 billion), the Chinese bank says on its Web site.
The deal lapses in three years and can be terminated at any time before that by mutual consent.
It enables companies from both countries to use national currencies for export-import operations and to conduct settlements in national currencies without involving the currencies of other countries.
The National Bank of Ukraine and People's Bank of China have signed a currency swap deal worth 15 billion yuan ($2.36 billion), the Chinese bank says on its Web site.
The deal lapses in three years and can be terminated at any time before that by mutual consent.
It enables companies from both countries to use national currencies for export-import operations and to conduct settlements in national currencies without involving the currencies of other countries.
Not sure what to make of this, Ukraine turning to the east.
It's some small sign of desperation. Ukraine's access to most financial markets is practically zilch. The only thing preventing the creditors from calling in their loans is pressure by Uncle Sam.
These Kiev regime propaganda numbers are ludicrous.
Even the UN under that US flunky was talking about over 6,000 civilian casualties last fall and obviously in the Donbas. Now these turds are yapping about 4,126 civilians. Perhaps they are being smartasses and only counting civilian losses in regime controlled territory. The regime forces have been caught placing their artillery and tanks inside villages and towns while they attack rebel territory.
As for 2,112 soldiers. Don't make me laugh (and cry). They lost over 4,000 soldiers in the southern cauldrons last summer.
NV via Google Translate wrote:Украинские военные передали ОБСЕ данные о комплексах Точка-У террористов Ukrainian military handed over the OSCE data Tochka-U complexes terrorists Yesterday, 11:37
(STSKK) informed the representatives of the special monitoring mission of the OSCE's location neotvedennogo militants heavy weapons.
In particular, the facts were given shelter in certain areas of launchers of tactical missiles Tochka-U, said the headquarters of the ATO.
OSCE representatives were transferred to other facts of the pro-Russian militants neotvedennomu heavy weapons.
"Violations of the Minsk Agreement militants do not stop. The Ukrainian side STSKK would be very grateful to the OSCE for the SMM objective assessment of this information," - said the head of the Ukrainian side STSKK Major-General Andrei Taran.
Earlier reports said that militants in the occupied Makeyevka were reported finding two missiles Tochka-U. Continue reading.
@gbazov wrote:#STAROMIKHAILOVKA—has been 10 month without electicity as a result of #Ukraine|ian forces attacking repair brigades.
Подробности Украины wrote:Sasha Borovik resigned because of public humiliation by Yatsenyuk
The Daily Beast wrote:Marine Le Pen's Closest Advisor Comes Out of the Shadows In Donetsk UNHOLY ALLIANCE 05.14.1511:45 AM ET
One of Marine Le Pen’s most trusted advisors has appeared at an event celebrating the establishment of Donetsk as an “independent” pro-Russian enclave in Ukraine.
On May 11, delegates from Europe’s political fringes travelled to Donetsk, the occupied ‘capital’ of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR), for a forum to mark the first anniversary of the proclamation of the Russian-backed separatist entities in Ukraine. This in itself is unsurprising since far-right politicians have been used on several occasions to lend a veneer of legitimacy to Russia’s puppet statelets and sham votes since the invasion of Crimea last year.
The attendance roster for this confab included some familiar pro-Putin faces such as French far-right Member of European Parliament Jean-Luc Schaffhauser, Italian nationalist Alessandro Musolino and German neo-Nazi journalist Manuel Ochsenreiter, who moonlights as Kremlin propaganda channel RT’s German “expert” on the Middle East. But this time there was one surprising name in the bunch: Emmanuel Leroy.
Leroy was billed as representing the French charity, Urgence d’Enfants Ukraine (UEU), led by Alain Fragny, a former member of the extreme-right Bloc Identitaire. UEU is a suspicious organization that promotes pro-Russian and pro-separatist propaganda on its websites and is rather opaque with regards to its structure and operations. Leroy was also named by the official site of the DNR leadership as one of the initiators of the forum back in March this year. Continue reading.
0629 via Google Translate wrote:К убийству в Талаковке вблизи Мариуполя причастны трое украинских военнослужащих By the murder of Talakovke near Mariupol involved three Ukrainian soldiers 10:50 15/05/2015
Operatives found that the murder of a man in Talakovke involved three soldiers who are stationed in a nearby village. They are currently detained. Pre-trial investigation is continuing. The press service of the Mariupol State Interior Ministry of Ukraine in Donetsk region. As for the personalities attackers are residents of neighboring areas, aged between 20 and 30 years old.
Open criminal proceedings under Part 2 of Article 121 "Premeditated grievous bodily harm committed by a group of persons, as well as the one that caused the victim's death" of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Sanction of Article provides for up to 10 years in prison. Defendants in a preventive measure in the form of detention.
Recall, on May 8 in the village Talakovka was found dead men , born in 1977, with signs of violent death. According to 0629 local people who died lived in sartans and had a pro-Russian sentiment. Continue reading.
kotyhoroh wrote:Mark Zuckerberg about Ukrainian Facebook office
Kyiv Post wrote:GDP decline in Ukraine accelerates to 17.6 percent in Q1, 2015 May 15, 2015, 4:11 p.m. | Ukraine — by Interfax-Ukraine
Ukraine's real gross domestic product (GDP) in the first quarter of 2015 dropped by 17.6 percent compared to the same period in 2014, whereas in the fourth quarter of 2014 the fall was 14.8 percent, in the third – 5.4 percent, in the second - 4.5 percent, and in the first - 1.2 percent. Continue reading.
War It's Fantastic wrote:Ukranian Civil War: Skirmishes in the village of Shyrokyne, April-May 2015
Комсомольская Правда wrote:В Горловке бьют по школам и детским садикам / Firing a school in Gorlovka
DTA RED wrote:Shirokino. TV reporters under ukrainian arty shellings
@EgoRZemtsoV wrote:Minister of Communications DNR Victor Yatsenko published photos with new SIM- cards. Soon DNR will be a new telecom operator.
@balaganoff75 wrote:Act: Nikolaev citizens washed from the traces of vandalism euromaidan relief to Lenin
Суть Времени wrote:Delivery of the battle flag brigade "Vostok".
Prestupnosti via Google Translate wrote:Николаев остановился, чтобы провести в последний путь майора 79-й ОАЭМБр, разбившегося в аварии Nikolaev stopped to spend the last journey of major 79th OAEMBr crashed in an accident 16 May 2015 10:45
Nikolaev morning of 16 May, a farewell to 27-year-old Major Arthur Kashapova, deputy commander of the 1st Battalion of the 79th separate airmobile brigade.
At the scene I went correspondent "Prestupnosti.NET."
Recall that Kashapov died in a car accident the evening of May 14. SUV, driven by major, crashed into the grain - injuries were incompatible with military life. Kashapov during the war in the Donbas had to show their best side in many military operations, fought in the Donetsk airport and under Debaltseve. In February this year the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko awarded Major Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky. Continue reading.
Russian border police, FSB has arrested a commander of LNR special force and then handed him over the ukranian army. Nothing surprises me anymore with Russia. I'm so dissapointed and angry.
Monarchist wrote:Russian border police, FSB has arrested a commander of LNR special force and then handed him over the ukranian army. Nothing surprises me anymore with Russia. I'm so dissapointed and angry.
Monarchist wrote:Russian border police, FSB has arrested a commander of LNR special force and then handed him over the ukranian army. Nothing surprises me anymore with Russia. I'm so dissapointed and angry.
I think Monarchist is writing about Mikhail Tarasenkov who was handed over by border guards to SBU. This is a convoluted affair.... http://www.anna-news.info/node/34893 http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/2187366.html
Monarchist wrote:Russian border police, FSB has arrested a commander of LNR special force and then handed him over the ukranian army. Nothing surprises me anymore with Russia. I'm so dissapointed and angry.
Monarchist wrote:Russian border police, FSB has arrested a commander of LNR special force and then handed him over the ukranian army. Nothing surprises me anymore with Russia. I'm so dissapointed and angry.
How about a source first?
Agreed, more sources, less emotions
http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/2187366.html
http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/2188167.html
Well Cassad makes an important point. Why were some parts in the video fast forwarded? Too early to jump on conclussions because we have seen over 9000 shenanigans from SBU.
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