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Together we’ll overcome!
December 2014
On February 5th, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko hosted a trilateral meeting with Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel and President of France Francois Hollande at his presidential administration offices in Kyiv.
Media sources across the globe have made use of the controlled leak of information about the meeting, new Franco-German initiative exposed is, essentially, another attempt to “gain the Beast’s favor” by letting him eat up the next piece of Ukrainian territory. Of course, all of this is wrapped in slogans promoting the territorial integrity of Ukraine and the «uncertain status» of the area controlled by the terrorists of the DNR, LNR and the Russian Armed Forces on Ukrainian territory.
A reminder should be given about the Crimean peninsula occupied by Russia in March 2014, where the old and newly deployed military bases of the Russian Federation have been strengthened. These military bases can be determining factors in the aggravation of the situation in the Black Sea region with Crimea used as a bridgehead for missile strikes not only into the territory of into mainland Ukraine but also into neighbouring countries. Currently, it seems to be impossible but as practice shows the XXI century is ruled by the same law as it was hundreds of years ago — the law of arms and power.
Countries armed with the nuclear baton allow themselves to attack smaller countries and encroach on their territory integrity and inviolability, though they actually declared in international treaties that it was precisely this integrity and inviolability that they would uphold.
However, Ukrainians don’t belong to the nations which can be brought to their knees. While colluding with the enemy, Ukrainian and European countries leaders forget that the Kremlin puts its money where its mouth is and that it doesn’t give a whit for signatures on paper; there is no other law but the law of force.
If Europe hopes to lull the Russian Beast with Ukraine, it is deeply mistaken, as the Beast is insatiable and having plunged one European country into war, it will soon continue with the second and the third …
Politicians, Presidents and Oligarchs, we would like to warn you: Ukrainians are neither meat nor a small coin in your political intrigues, and one day the time will come when new Titans will arise in the heart of Ukrainians as their spirit has already been roused on Maidan and hardened under fire…
Do you think we are joking? – No, it’s just the beginning…
InformNapalm Team
Translated by Marina Kharkova
Edited by James Hydzik
In the latest incident which will further damage the reputation of the OSCE, an OSCE monitor is reported to have been wounded while near to a separatist mortar team which was in action against Ukrainian positions.
On December 1st the InformNapalm group received a message from insiders that in Donetsk a representative of the OSCE mission was wounded by Ukrainian artillery counter-fire. Approximately ten separatist militia were killed in the same incident. The incident occurred near the ventilation shaft of the Cheluskintsiv mine between the Petrovs’kyi district of Donetsk and Staromykhailivka. InformNapalm however decided not to rush with distribution of this information and first checked confirmed the information with other sources.
Separatists photographed getting into OSCE vehicle
In the light of this new evidence it appears there is a strong case that some members of the OSCE mission are co-operating with pro-Russian militias. The OSCE has been harshly criticized in the recent past when photographs emerged showing OSCE vehicles being used to transport separatist forces, and OSCE monitors in comradely poses with separatists. Most recently the OSCE has been severely criticized in Ukraine and in the western media for failing to notice a huge amount of Russian military activity in the areas they are monitoring. The fact that many OSCE monitors are Russian leaves the OSCE reputation of impartiality, at least in the field, in severe doubt. This situation endangers the whole monitoring mission.
The information received about the event is as follows: While two terrorists mortar teams were firing their 120-mm mortars on positions of Ukrainian forces in Krasnohorivka , two cars with representatives of OSCE were parked near to them. However when the Ukrainians return fire the explosions killed ten separatist milita and wounded the representative of the OSCE. The return defensive fire is not contradicting the Minsk agreement and cannot be considered as a violation of the ‘ceasefire’. Earlier today the Ukrainian ATO centre confirmed the shelling of Krasnohorivka.
The severity of wounds of the OSCE monitor is unknown.
This event raises some serious questions. Firstly the incident in question occurred on the 1st December and should have therefore already have been reported by the OSCE. This has not occurred. Secondly what were the OSCE representatives doing parked next to a firing position of the terrorist, and why and why was this not immediately recorded and radioed in? All of these issues suggest that the monitors were not acting as impartial peace monitors and facilitating the ceasefire, but at a minimum have been covering up separatist transgressions of the ceasefire.
We can give the coordinates of the position from which the terrorist were shelling and where return volley came. More information will no doubt emerge from our sources in the near future.
The coordinates on snapshot:
Original : https://informnapalm.org/3627-osce-terror-donetsk/
We would like to follow up on our article ‘Fighting breaks out between Separatist Groups and Russian Special Forces in Antratsyt’, published on the 1st December. In this article we reported on a `shoot-out’ between forces of the LPR and the Cossack militants fighting for the LPR in which sound information was received about the death of the leader of the Cossack forces.
The burial of Vyacheslav Pinezhanin, the commandant of the Cossack National Guard, and his deputy, took place this afternoon. InformNapalm.org received confirmation of the funeral from its own local sources.
The city center was blocked by traffic police, many cars and a large number of people came to the square in front of the district administration. Measures were taken to protect the city center, including bring in an armored troop-carrier which was moved from Krasnoluchskyi traffic police post.
While the corpse of the previous «official» is still warm, a new candidate for the post of Cossack commandant appeared. He is a local person named Michael, but his surname is not currently known.
In an attempt to try to extinguish the conflict between the groups of LPR and the Cossack National Guard, the Don Cossacks announced that the perpetrators of the murder of the commandant have been arrested.
The Cossack chieftain Kozitsyn is also trying to create the appearance that he still has some influence on the Cossack National Guard. He is handing out awards and titles to Cossacks from the groups fighting in LPR territory from his base in Novocherkassk.
We recall that armed clashes took place in Antratsyt on November 28. The original article can be found here.
Roman Burko of InformNapalm. November 30, 2014
Translated by Maria Holubeva
Shelling of Ukrainian territory by Russian artillery was discussed several times in the past. There is much evidence of it on the Web. We were able to identify multiple Russian army units which performed bombardments of military convoys and bases of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the territories adjacent to the Russian border, fired from both Russian territory and within Ukraine.
In an effort to gather evidence of the direct involvement of Russian Armed Forces in an undeclared war against Ukraine, we found fresh photos and videos showing “wandering raids” of a rocket artillery unit of a battalion tactical group of 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy.
According to the existing documents, day and night bombardments were performed from locations in Rostov region close to Ukrainian border (presumably from the areas near the villages of Uglerodovsky, Anikin, and Gukovo) and directly from Ukrainian territory, near Krasnodon. See the photo attachement of 26 slides, and videos:
— As Luhansk People Republic. A volley of a “Grad” battery, July 2014; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dww-9LUtCRU&feature=youtu.be
– A night volley of a “Grad” battery; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTyAewgr_UA&feature=youtu.be
– A lot of fun in Gukovo. An MLRS volley to Ukrainian territory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtH9ZpfmaMw&feature=youtu.be
The first batch of photographs show the units artillery detachments
This 2nd batch of photographs below show the combat and transport vehicles of the combined unit. The vehicles lack license plates, but they have instead affectionate names of mothers and loved ones like “Antonina Ivanovna,” “Nafisa,” “Kristina,” or Soviet symbols and slogans such as «Death to the fascists,» «For Stalin,» «Death to Aydar,» and other nonsense.
Photos and videos were obtained from servicemen of 200th Brigade of the Northern Fleet.
See also other texts on this subject:
— 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy in Ukraine;
https://informnapalm.org/1020-200-ya-otdelnaya-motostrelko…/
— 291st artillery brigade’s “Tour of duty” from Crimea to Donbass; https://burkonews.info/291st-artillery-brigades-tour-duty-crimea-donbass/
– About flying ”Grad” MLRS https://www.facebook.com/irakli.komaxidze/posts/626503984129518
– Identification of the Russian invasion forces. The units and their losses in Ukrainian territory.
https://informnapalm.org/1391-ydentyfykatsyya-syl-vtorzhen…/
– Identification of Military Units and the Armament of Artillery Elements of the Russian Invasion Forces;
https://burkonews.info/identification-military-units-armament-artillery-elements-russian-invasion-forces/
Author: Irakly Komaxidze
(с) This information was gathered exclusively for the project InformNapalm. Copying and use of the materials are allowed provided that a reference to the author and a link to our website are given.
Russian original:
Translated by: Maria Holubeva
Edited by: Max Alginin
New details of armed clashes in city of Antratsyt appeared on Friday afternoon, November 28. The first reports of clashes in Antratsyt were reported by different mass media on Friday morning largely from Twitter accounts from city residents.
InformNapalm insiders report that the situation was intense since the early morning. At approximately 9AM the first clashes started with gunfire. Between 10am and 11am schools were closed and parents received phone calls to take their kids back home immediately. Locals say that LNR militants had come to get rid of `kazaky’. At the same time sources report shootings near the LNR garrison headquarters of the city. Four persons were reported to be killed, including the military governor of the city Vyacheslav Pinezhanin, who belongs to kazaky, and Pinezhanin’s deputy. Leader of the local police Pavel Shmargun is reported to be wounded. Also wounded is 15-year old girl.
Pinezhanin death has been reported by four different local sources.
At 11:00 artillery fire could be heard in the northwestern districts of the city, including Nizhniy Nagolchik and Bokovo-Platovo. Gunfire was also reported from Yesaulovka. The fire was reported to be intense and not in any way similar to a drill or exercise. Locals in Nizhniy Nagolchik say the gunfire is an internal conflict between LNR and `Kazaky’ militants.
Gunmen blocked the sidewalk near Anratsyt City Police Headquarters in the government quarters. Sources said “Around 15 militants armed with automatic weapons stand near Rayon Administration Building. They are definitely not locals and not kazaky” According to insiders the militants were dressed in “carrot-colored camouflage” nobody else is wearing in Antratsyt. Sources suggest these people are Russian special-forces personnel. The city’s central square is filled with cars, but no armored vehicles were sighted so far.
Other sources report that ataman Kozytsyn was arrested or that he fled to Russia.
These facts suggest that recent skirmishes in Antratsyt are not a coincidence or result of internal struggles, but a planned and well-organized cleanup by Russian special-forces. This theory is supported by rumors, circulating in the city during last 10 days. Some militants warned that a special group of FSB operatives will arrive to “settle the situation then and there”.
Author: Roman Burko.
Translated by: Gennadiy Kornev
That is not for the first time that I write about the re-deployment of Russian troops from Eastern Siberia and the Far East to the Ukrainian border, but we haven’t yet seen much data to confirm all the information. However this information gradually becomes more concrete over time. Here we present evidence of the deployment of the 5th Tank Brigade of the 36th Army of the Eastern Military Command, military unit 46108, place of permanent deployment – Buryatia, Ulan-Ude town, Street Devisionnaya.
Based on the acquired photo materials and information, a detachment of the 5th Tank Brigade was redeployed to Rostov region at the end of October. According to available information we can estimate the deployment strength of a battalion tactical group (BTG), which comprises tanks (T-72), artillery (self-propelled howitzers “Akatsiya”) and infantry fighting vehicles (BMP). The vehicles are mainly manned by contract soldiers from Tuva and Buryatia. Currently the BTG has been deployed as a field camp between Matveyevo-Kurgansk and Myasnikovsky area of Rostov region. From a strategic point of view this is a convenient site for further deployment to Mariupol and Donetsk.
Pay attention to the vehicles including the first picture of the BMP bearing a “ Towards Kiev” inscription on it
Related references to this unit include:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JBuncWVRFs&list=UUy26U7Xp3e7W2V-rysEAkSw
https://burkonews.info/buryat-community-war-ukraine/
Author: Irakly Komakhidze
Translator: Roman Vlasof
Here is the 3rd episode of the conversation between the terrorist, Fedor Ustinov, who came from Russia to fight for the DPR. After Ustinov was taken prisoner this recording was made of the conversation between him and a Ukrainian officer who was trying to find out what motivates the Russian mercenaries. The video contains a bit of swearing, though generally it’s polite enough. The replies of the Russian combatant clearly demonstrate the absurdity of the Russian propaganda and its horror stories about “Right Sector” and “Kiev Junta” and other labels that Russian media tries to attach to Ukraine.
As previously reported, Fedor Ustinov, a DPR terrorist and a citizen of Russia from Novorossiysk, born in 1983, was captured near Debaltsevo in the second half of October.
We divided the conversation of the DPR combatant from Russia and the Ukrainian officer into 3 episodes. You can watch the first episode by clicking here, or the second by clicking here
By the summer of 1943 the armed struggle of The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) was gaining momentum. This guerrilla formation was operating deep in the rear of the Wehrmacht in the Volynia area. The cherished goal of the insurgent fighters was the foundation of an independent state within the areas inhabited by Ukrainian people. But the path to independence was blocked by the German occupants, along with other forces claiming their rights on the Ukrainian territories such as the USSR and the Polish Resistance Movement (before the beginning of the 2nd World War Western Ukraine used to be a part of Poland). In 1943 the area of Volynj was a region of permanent conflict between UPA, the Germans, the Polish, and Red Army partisans.
By 1943 the Germans were loosing the war, and the advancing Red Army was due to arrive and restore Stalin’s rule. The Ukrainian insurgents were preparing to confront, face to face, the huge military machine of the Russian totalitarian state. There was no chances of assistance from the US or Great Britian, due to the fact that UPA was fighting against two countries which were participants of the Anti-Nazi coalition (the USSR and Poland). In such a situation the leaders of the Ukrainian resistance movement had to hope for a revolution by peoples of the USSR themselves, against both Nazi and Bolshevist oppressors.
The instrument to spark the national revolution was the Ukrainian insurgents’ propaganda as well as the national legions (armed units) of UPA. Where did the legions come from? As a matter of fact Germany itself was playing the national card in its war against the Soviet Union. They were organizing military and police units (as a rule, companies and battalions) based on national identity which stood under their national banners. One of the places where there were formations serving the German army was Poltava region and there were many servicemen in these units. Ukrainian insurgents persuaded many of these soldiers to come over to their side, and formed out of them the same kind of national legions under UPA, but yet now orientated to fight both the Germans and the Red Army.
Georgian, Uzbek, Azejbardzan and other UPA units were successful in fighting against both Nazi occupants and Red Army partisans. UPA believed that there would be a shift in the socio-political situation in the Soviet Union which would lead to the collapse of the power of the Bolsheviks, and that by fighting on the side the Ukrainians legions the other national ethnic groups within the USSR would be able to create their own national armies of liberation and political movements throughout the Soviet Union. At the time of the entry of the Red Army on the territory of Western Ukraine UPA consisted of units from 15 different national groups, ranging in size from platoon to battalion.
On November 21-22, 1943 a conference of oppressed nations of Eastern Europe and Asia was convened. The conference took place on the territory of modern time Rovenskaya area in underground conditions. Representatives of 13 oppressed nations from the USSR participated, that included 39 participants: 6 Georgians headed by “Karl”, 6 Azejbarjanians (with “Fizul” heading the delegation), 5 Uzbeks (“Shimrat”), 4 Armenians (“Antrant”), 4 Tatar people (“Tukay”), 2 Belorussians (“Druzhny”), 2 Ossetians (“Aram”), Kazakh “Dezhkman”), Cherkes “Dzigit”, Kabardians “Baksan”, Chuvash “Skvortshov”, Baskir “Kagrman” and 5 Ukrainians (representing UPA).
The resolution at the end of the conference stated: a new international order based on the triumph of the political rights of every people, every nation will give the full capabilities of the cultural and economic development. The system of free national states provides for individual’s liberty that was oppressed and exploited by the (USSR) imperialist system”.
In their propaganda leaflets Ukrainian insurgents addressed the soldiers in Russian and other national languages with an appeal of a common cause against both Hitler’s and Stalin’s imperialism. Shown below is the pamphlet with an appeal to the peoples of the Caucasus which was printed in an underground printing house in Odessa.. It was issued around the period of the Conference of the oppressed people of Eastern Europe and Asia. Just 3 months later the Chechen and Ingush people were barbarously deported, house by house, to distant regions of the USSR.
For Independent Composite Ukrainian State!
Freedom to people!
Freedom to individuals!
Cherkeses, Kabardians , Ossetians, Chechens, Adygeis,
Lezgians, Ingushes !
The Proud sons of Terek! Honorable posterity of brave Dagestan, Chechen, Ingush and Ossetian souls. Your ancestors bravely defended your mountain nest villages against the conquerors from Moscow — more than once. For centuries they managed to assert their freedom and independence.
Since 1587 Moscow repeatedly tried to occupy your strongholds in order to utilize them as their own out-posts for the further colonization of the whole Caucuses. By way of their brave pressure your ancestors destroyed the Moscow fortress of Tarki and eliminated countless amount of Streltsy of commander Khvorostin, thus entirely discouraged the jackals from Moscow to encroach on the your freedom for a few centuries.
Then come the hard years of struggle in the 19th century. Since 1807 Moscow’s armies advanced like an avalanche into your native mountains to destroy your villages and turn you into slaves.
However the predator made a mistake. Russian mercenaries like Tsitsianovs, Yermolovs, and Paskevichs did not take into account that the sons of mountains, where Prometheus was chained to at their heights, can never be conquered.
Thousands of mountain horsemen responded to the sacred call of jihad. They united around their naibs and murds, to defend their home places. The ancestors of mountain people remember the glorious battles of Gerzel-aul (1825) where the troops of general Lisanevich were destroyed.
Among thousands of others, the name of heroic Shamil will long stay in the memory of his ancestors for he was able to lead the heroic struggle against Moscow. Besides we will never forget the glorious deeds of your ancestors in the battle of Gergebil (1843) where thousands of Russian Vorontsov’s soldiers were eliminated. Derbent, Gekha, Gimry, Gunib represented the pages of heroic struggle written in blood of Gamzat Bek, Kazi Mully, Khadzhi Murad and Khadzhy Yousip. Your pastures were turned into estates of Vorontsovs, Tsitsianovs and Yousupovs. Thousands of your forefathers perished in mines and Siberian taiga. Thousands did not surrender to Moscow, and had to drag the last days of their lives banished in a strange land. In 1917 the prison of nations collapsed and so did the Moscow Empire. Chechens, Circassians, Ingushes, Lezgians, Ostians came back to their native places. Governing bodies were created, and the hated enslavers were thrown over Terek and Kuban.
But the sun of freedom over the mountain villages did not shine long. Again the torrent of enemies from Moscow, headed by red executioners Kirov and Ordzhenikidze poured down as an avalanche burning down villages, requisitioned herds, and enforcing the horrors of Russian Extraordinary Counter-Revolution Commissions. But Moscow was still was not satisfied. In order to enslave you completely, Moscow demanded forced “collectivization” that resulted in a mountaineer’s losing their herds and their property. He now had to look for his daily bread in the mines of Chiatura, or the oil fields in Baku, or to Grozny and Emba.
And at the start of Bolsheviks’-German war, you were shepherd to the front in the name of Moscow. Some part of you, having no wish to defend the Red Moscow, entered the national battalions in the ranks of the German army, in order to eliminate the hated Moscow tyrant. Alas, your aspirations did not come true. When Germans came to you native lands they implemented a policy of enslavement, no lesser than at the time of Red Moscow. German imperialism, having captured you in its military machine, were suffering defeats at the fronts, loosing it allies, trying to build a barrier for their lands out of your dead bodies. Children of Mountains! It’s enough to continue being a blind weapon in the hands of German imperialism! Remember the legacy of your proud forefathers who sacrificed their lives for the freedom of Caucasus! Ukrainian people call to you to join a common struggle against eternal enslavers. Let us build up a powerful front against the blood-suckers of humankind.
With arms in hands come over to the national units of Ukrainian Insurgent Army which is fighting German and Moscow imperialists for many months now. Gather forces for the total revolution against Moscow-Bolsheviks tyranny. We are united under the same slogans – LONG LIVE INDEPENDENCE FOR THE PEOPLE OF DAGESTAN, OSETIA, CHECHNYA, KABARDINO BALKARIYA, INGUSHETIA!
LONG LIVE UKRAINIAN INDEPENDENT STATE!
Chief Command of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
General Headquarters, November 1943.
PRINTHOUSE OF UKRAINIAN INSURGENT ARMY “FREEDOM TO PEOPLE”. Law 70-43.
The article was prepared by InfoNapalm group based on the materials of the site “Bandera Nationalist Library”:
Translator: Roman Vlasof
According to our insiders, the quantity of troops in unmarked uniforms arriving in the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions has increased in the second half of the November. Unlike the terrorist militia of the DNR and LNR who prefer to adorn themselves with striped ribbons and various chevrons with emblems of Novorossiya and other unrecognized republics, these new soldiers look like regular troops belonging to the armed forces of the Russian Federation
These military units are being located to the second line of defence, the first line being occupied by local militias and terrorists. According to our expert Irakli Komaxidze, troops of the Eastern military district of the Russian Federation were transferred to the territory of Ukraine. Such a seemingly irrational step by the Russian military as the movement of units from the Far East can be attributed to a lack of manpower and resources available from the Western, Southern and Central military Districts.
Another possible reason for the transfer of units from the east is the psychological factor. One of veterans of the first Chechen company told us: … «in the optical sight it is easier to look at the enemy who is different from you in the eye shape, language, skin colour and customs. It is not the same as the Slavonian with which you have blood ties». Maybe the Russian military leaders are guided by the same principle sending Buryats, Tuvinians, Dahestanis and other nationalities to fight in Ukraine.
The termination of funding to the occupied regions by the Ukrainian Government has provoked a situation of public outrage of the local population towards the militants. This new hardship has also catalysed the formation of underground initiatives to fight for social rights, and even stimulated resistance through the partisan groups. Taking into consideration the fact that the economy of the occupied region is destroyed, and the Russian Federation has its own economic problems, so the separatist forces may initiate attacks against the Ukrainian troops to divert attention from social problems which have come to the fore after the Minsk agreements.
If you look at the development of the war from April this year, the successful offensive operations of the enemy in August and September forced the Ukrainian authorities to make new arrangements with the terrorists and their puppeteers from Russia. Therefore we should not discard the possibility of a transition to the active phase of the offensive in order to try and force Ukraine to make economic concessions to the occupied territories.
We observe movement of enemy armored convoys towards Komsomolske and Telmanove. The fact suggests the possibility of attack to the north of Mariupol. The scenario of possible actions remains here unchanged. Stirring up of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the occupied Crimea may indicate a preparation of a breakthrough towards the mainland of Ukraine or could be a consequence of the continuation of “muscle flexing”.
Over the past days the activity of militants around Debaltseve has increased. For several days in a row they shelled the headquarters of the sector. There is an increase of the enemy power in Yenakijeve, Karsnyi Luch and in the Pervomaisk — Alchevsk direction. The facts suggest the possible preparation of the offensive with the aim to create a pocket around Debaltseve.
As for Donetsk, the attack upon Marinka becomes unlikely because the attack group of the militants was virtually destroyed in the area of DZTO (Donetsk Machine Building Plant, 47°55’37″N 37°38’46″E), which somewhat foiled their plans. However, this directions should not be ignored, considering the flow of military equipment to Donetsk.
One of the key dangers is the likelihood of troops being brought from the territory of the Russian federation along the P22 highways from Millerovo (Russia) towards Shchastya (Luhansk Oblast). This is possibility is highlighted by the renewed bombardment of the Ukrainian troops from the Russian side of the border, as well as repeated crossing of the border near Krasna Talivka by the Russian aviation. Such a thrust is the probably the only way for the enemy to capture Shchastya (noting that it is geographically protected in the south by the Seversky Donets River).
We can also note that there is a constant flow of heavy military equipment moving from the direction of Izvaryne via Kransodon.
The leaders of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics are trying to legalize the “right to strike” of the Russian troops from Crimea and the territory of the Russian Federation, by stirring up the situation with claims of a humanitarian catastrophe in Donbas. They continue by all means to provoke the situation with call to the Kremlin for Putin to send the troops!
Update November 27, 2014: after publication of the material, we received a message from one of our readers in the Luhansk Oblast, which confirms that the militants are trying to provoke a humanitarian catastrophe: “The militants declared to the residents of Stanytsia Luhanska that since December 1st they ban the import of products from Stanytsia to Luhansk. They probably want to provoke a riot of the villagers against the Armed Forces of Ukraine, because the residents of Stanytsia mainly live off the sale of agricultural production to Luhansk and the Rostov Oblast”.
The map has not changed since the last update.
The material was prepared by the military analyst of the InformNapalm team Artem Vasylenko, and the coordinator, military correspondent Roman Burko.
«We will poison vodka. We will make you fear to make a gulp of water» — this was an ultimatum, set by women residents of Chervonopartizansk to separatist militants stationed in their city. Right after that Denis Ponizovnyi, military governor of the city, announced that representatives of Sverdlovsk separatist militia refuse to obey his orders…
Both events are connected. Woman needs to take care of her children, man needs to take care of his family. But how can they do this when Russia sends trucks loaded with guns and ammunition instead of humanitarian aid to the region it occupied? Some food arrives after all, but in amounts which are gravely insufficient. For example, in Donetsk there are several reports when the amount of food rations was two, sometimes — three times less than needed. Same is true with regard to other cities of the region. People are angry and are waiting for the spark. Finally it happened…
Locals got tired of military action, artillery shootings by separatists in residential quarters and, most importantly — lack of any quality of living. Hunger deaths are becoming more frequent. According to our sources: 64 people died of hunger in Chervonopartizansk, Sverdlovsk Region. Rape of local women by separatist militants is also becoming more frequent. All this resulted into events, that happened during last week:
Chervonopartizansk — hunger rebellion. Local women gave militants one week to get food and supplies for the city.
Yenakijeve — women are raising money for food and medicines.
Makiivka — militants dispersed peaceful manifestation.
Torez — people on the streets are asking «authorities» for food (video).
At first these events seem to be sporadic. Yet we noticed certain consistency despite vast geography of the events. We discovered activists of Women Battalion of the People’s Wrath. As we understand, the brave women are driven not by politics, but by desire to stop the mayhem.
«We are sick of all abuse by DPR and LPR, — says the leader of organization. — We are trying to remind them that we are human beings whose opinion should be taken into account. Will they start shooting us? No. They are well aware that our husbands will stand for us, even those, who are fighting for them… We will continue to defend our rights.»
My source’s eyes have very hard glance. I have seen a lot, yet I feel uneasy. She is not an empty talker. So now the militants will have to take this new force into account. As the events in Slovyansk before the occupation was over demonstrate: militants are helpless against the wrath of the people…
I address my congratulations to OSCE mission observers in Ukraine for at last noticed Russian troop movement in the Donetsk area. I wonder how many Russian vehicles it took to make even the OSCE observers to notice them. Clearly it was many vehicles.
This is why after the DPR leader Zakharchenko decided to join the lie of his Kremlin chiefs it just became more senseless and stupid. By claiming that DPR provides regrouping of their troopers he put himself into a bad position. If his Kremlin bosses hide from him the real quantity of the forces they are going to transfer to the region “trusted” to Zakharchenko? If not, let’s count everything that the cameras managed to capture.
Let us start from the 8th of November: 3 T-72B tanks with traces of the white dye on the rollers and almost erased marks H-2200, telling us that they were transported by railways of Russia, driven down Kuprina Street in Donetsk (according to You Tube video-service that I trust much more than Kremlin). Let us estimate 1200 litres of fuel, or 3 tons for all.
This very day on the approaches of Donetsk were noticed military column containing one “bagel” UAZ-452, one car on base of APC-80, 17 machines “Ural-4320” pulling 155 mm “MSTA-B” howitzers on the trailer, nine KamAZ-5350 machines (that Ukrainian army have no in service), Four “Urals” without trailers and two GAZ-66. In total we have more than 40 military vehicles. Kamaz fuel-tanks contain 410 litres of fuel. Telling other way, to feed only this part of the column 4 tons of fuel is needed. Urals will need more than 6 tons (21 vehicle 300 litres for each of them).
10 of November: One more tank column rolled through Donetsk, with 6 T72B tanks. Here we already can say about 7 tons of fuel for each, even if not to count the collector “folksvagen” of support. The next day – one more military column. It comprised 3 MV-21 on Ural-4320, 34 KamAzes 5530, 7 of them had D-30 howitzers on trailers, 2 additional Kamazs with “Uragan” shelling systems, one bus and 3 minibuses of support, one UAZ 469 and 4 full trucks (see picture).
This seems to be about 48 of trucks in total and not less than 16 tons of fuel. Of course fuel data is just an approximate, but gives us an opportunity to see the depth of the RF military preparations in only one part of the Russian-Ukrainian front. For the last three days four videos (see pictures below) captured 9 tanks, 34 122-152 mm calibre howitzers , more than 90 military cars and 3 civil cars full of weaponry. We don’t know what was in the fourth truck, perhaps it is a “Cargo-200” transporter? Besides these, there was a column where Kamazs pulled just D-30 howitzers.
Where does the half-destroyed and not-working Donetsk and Luhansk regions found the means for a such kind of regrouping?
From where do the tanks originate that are not in service in Ukraine and having graphic marks from Russian rail services originate?
And what of the origins of the “Grads” dyed in the colour of sand?
How can there be columns of military vehicles models of Kamaz and Ural trucks that had never been in service of Ukrainian army? And where does the DPR get more than 300 tanks T64B and T72B from? I need to point that a small but economically developed country like Holland (Netherlands) in 2011 had less than 100 tanks in service.
Generally speaking, I think that anyone already got that there is no movements of separatists, just the movement of the Russian army. So the OSCE mission representatives have reasons to worry, not only about Ukraine’s sovereignty and integrity, but also about their own countries.
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Introduction
This article is Part 2 of the review of the Armaments Research Services (ARES) research report `Raising Red Flags: An examination of Arms and Munitions in the ongoing Conflict in Ukraine (Research Report No3, November 2014). Part 1 focussed on the very valuable summary of unique `Flag Item’ weaponry being used in Ukraine by the separatists. It is argued that this data adds to the body of evidence that the Russian military is supplying weapons to the battlegrounds of Eastern Ukraine.
Part 2 however focusses on the critical weakness of the report and responds to the apparent inability of the authors of the report to acknowledge direct Russian involvement in the conflict, despite all evidence (including their own and other well-known sources) to the contrary. The fact that the authors fail to even acknowledge Russian involvement in the fighting, other than in the Crimea where Russia has itself formally acknowledged its forces, sets up their inability to draw appropriate conclusions regarding sources and supply mechanisms of the Flag Item weapons highlighted in Part 1. These first and second components of this article are therefore integrally linked.
I therefore conclude that while the report is a very valuable contribution to the knowledge base of the weapons being utilized in the war in Ukraine, it is questionable in its analysis of the sources of supply, and therefore in its conclusions. And yet in the information field reader perceptions of analysis and conclusions are everything.
Introduction
Armaments Research Services (ARES) has just released a very useful assessment of military weaponry being used in the war in Eastern Ukraine, in a report titled `Raising Red Flags: An examination of Arms and Munitions in the ongoing Conflict in Ukraine (Research Report No3, November 2014). This report provides a detailed review of the weaponry identified as being utilized by both the Ukrainian and the separatist forces, covering everything from munitions to types of personal armaments to heavy artillery and armoured vehicles.
In sifting through the detail of information, perhaps the most interesting part of the report is the recording of the range of weaponry in use that is not available to the Ukrainian military. This weaponry is almost exclusively found in the stockpiles of the Russian army. This data would therefore add to the body of evidence that the Russian military is supplying weapons to the battlegrounds of Eastern Ukraine.
However while the report’s focus is on detailing the range of weaponry available to the forces fighting in Ukraine, it also reflects a distinct political – pro-Russian – bias. Whether this is a deliberate bias or a result of incomplete research is another debate. However the report’s conclusions are severely deficient. We therefore conclude that while the report is a very valuable contribution to the knowledge base of the weapons being utilized in the war in Ukraine it is questionable in its analysis of the sources of supply and therefore in its conclusions. And yet in the information field reader perceptions of analysis and conclusions are everything.
The InformNapalm team has obtained a unique video of the dialogue between a Russian combatant taken prisoner and Ukrainian armed forces representatives, filmed in a field camp. The video contains a bit of swearing, though generally it’s polite enough. The replies of the Russian combatant clearly demonstrate the absurdity of the Russian propaganda and its horror stories about “Right Sector” and “Kiev Junta” and other labels that Russian media tries to attach to Ukraine.