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http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/199376.html
Major Stanislav V. Karachevskyy
In Crimea, A Russian military officer shot a Ukrainian officer at point blank range.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has confirmed that a Russian serviceman has killed a Ukrainian officer.
07.04.2014 09:26
On April 6 at 23:40 pm Moscow time, in the village of Novofedorivka, Crimea, and officer in the dormitory received two shots back to back with an AK -74 from the serviceman of a separate battalion of marines, BSF Junior Sergeant Zaitsev, who shot ES Major Stanislav V. Karachevskyy (born 1981), who served in one of the units of the Naval Forces of Ukraine and was preparing for departure to the mainland [Ukraine].
The tragedy occurred in the hallway on the fifth floor of hostel number 3 on Marchenko Street. 2nd in the village Novofedorivka, Saki district, Crimea.
It was found that one bullet hit the Ukrainian officer in the chest, the other in the eye area, and there were traces of blood leading from the third floor. There is speculation that the body of the deceased had been dragged.
There is also information that the friend of the deceased – Officer Branch Operations Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Captain Artem V. Ermolenko was brutally beaten and arrested by soldiers of Russia, currently submitted to the investigation department of the Black Sea Fleet .
According to witnesses, at about the time of the death of the officer in the corridors of the hostel explosions and gunshots were heard.
At the scene, traveled operative group Saki MV police, the military prosecutor and the investigating committee.
The story that emerged:
Six Russian military personnel in a state of extreme intoxication were marauding in the officers’ dormitory [in Novofedorivka, Crimea]. They broke down the doors to a room and started to beat a Ukrainian officer, inquiring where his wife was, threatening to rape her in front of him. [The officer’s wife and family had already shipped out of Crimea to mainland Ukraine and he was about to follow]. When the Ukrainian officer told them that his wife had left for Odesa they told the officer to get down on his knees so they could photograph themselves with him on their telephones. When the officer’s friend, Captain Ermolenko, refused to obey, the group of Russian soldiers started to beat him savagely. Two of the Russians openly stole some of his property. When he protested, Junior Sergeant Zaicev pressed a gun to Karachevskyy and cold bloodedly shot him twice at point blank range. The group of Russian soldiers took his body and property from the scene of the crime and disappeared in a GAZ-66 vehicle in an unknown direction.
“We confirm the death of a Ukrainian officer in the village of Novofedorivka in Crimea,” the Ministry of Defence’s press service told Interfax-Ukraine.
According to the report, the Russian serviceman shot the Ukrainian officer dead near the hostel where the latter lived.
At the same time, Director of the Center for Military and Political Studies Dmytro Tymchuk wrote on his Facebook page Monday that “at 23:45, a Russian serviceman, Junior Sergeant Ye. S. Zaitsev, killed in two shots at point-blank range a serviceman of the military unit No. 1100, Major K., who was preparing to leave for the mainland, in his hostel room.”
He wrote that Captain A. Yermolenko, who was also in the room, had been beaten and abducted by Russian troops. Tymchuk said that Russian servicemen had also taken the body of the Ukrainian major.
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It is long past time for Ukraine to simply begin shooting the invaders. I am very sorry that Ukraine has been of the opinion that Russia was some kind of nurturing “older brother.” In truth, Russians in general have held Ukrainians in a kind if condescension and even contempt for a long time. Ukraine must lose this mentality that Russia and Russians are their friends, and accept the facts on the ground- Russia has invaded Ukraine, is systematically attacking and stealing its resources and infrastructure, and murdering its people. The time of paralyzed disillusionment must end, and the time of fierce resolve and utter rejection must begin. I fail to understand how anyone in the East of Ukraine can want to join Russia when Russia’s armed forces behave in this manner in a region that supposedly “wanted” to join them. How will they be expected to behave in a region that is divided and resisting? Have the people of Donetsk no sense of self-preservation at all? And if the protesters on the streets calling for a Russian “liberation” are a small minority, don’t the rest of the people understand that they must speak much more loudly for unity and Ukraine, or risk it being assumed that the only voices heard, the separatists, represent general public opinion? The only thing needed for evil to prevail is for good people to stand by and do nothing.
Ukrainians must all rise for unity or be ground beneath the boots of the Russian army’s rapists and murderers. Isn’t that abundantly clear from current events???!!!
This is the “protecting of threatened ethnic Russians” in Crimea that the Russian government is providing. As a soldier stationed in Crimea, it is very very likely that the murdered soldier was an “ethnic Russian” and they quite obviously were conversing in Russian. If this soldiers wife and children had not already left for the mainland, his young children would have been forced to watch while the six Russian soldiers gang raped their mother before they murdered the children’s father. These are scenes of true horror. Why is our US government silent on the endless brutality of these “rescuers” sent from Russia???? Why do Lavrov and Putin go unchallenged on their pious demands for the rights of protesters to be heard, and violent separatists to be negotiated with non-violently (or they will invade to “protect”), while they ruthlessly suppress, beat and arrest anyone in their own country who even holds up a sign asking for peace? Ukraine should clear those buildings of armed insurgents in exactly the same way Russia would clear buildings in Moscow if insurgents seized some, and then clearly say “we appreciate Russian government concern for ethnic Russians, so we have carefully handled these armed insurgents in the same way Russia treats its native citizens, so that Russia will see we are committed to treating “ethnic Russian” as fairly as they would be treated at home in Russia.” Two days ago, protesters in Moscow were arrested for holding up their empty hands, claiming their posters were invisible. Can we not officially respond to Lavrov’s laughable demands for concessions to Ukrainian protesters and his assertions of his right to protect ethnic Russians everywhere by pointing out that we expect Russian government demands regarding the rights of ethnic Russians everywhere to be in line with how Russia demonstrates those rights to be within its own borders (that is, rights are non-existent; I have personally witnessed uniformed police officers in the heart of Moscow robbing Russian citizens in broad daylight). Further, can we not publicize and condemn the murders of and brutality toward unarmed Ukrainan citizens in Crimea by the Russian army, and “officially” ask Lavrov if this kind of “protection” and “rescue from fascism” is what he proposes to extend to eastern and southern Ukraine?
The war of rhetoric is on, and Russia is twisting things to score points in the public eye against “the west”, and yet we seem to be ignoring ways to use just pure truth against the Russian government in return. We must step it up!