Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzzLPrNTb6I&feature=youtu.be
Ein Krim-Flüchtling und ein Russland-Flüchtling kämpfen im Bataillon der ukrainischen Nationalisten und berichten über ihre Erfahrungen.
Mykola Kohanivsky, Kommandeur des Bataillons OUN (Organisation ukrainischer Nationalisten):
Ob wir es mögen oder nicht – die hier sind die Besten. Und Gott sei Dank, dass sie hier sind!
Dmitry Tymchuk, Head of the Center for Military and Political Research, Coordinator of the Information Resistance group, Member of Parliament (People’s Front)
02.04.2015
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine
In the vicinity of Debaltseve, Russian-terrorist forces are carrying out a regrouping of forces and means, after trying to disrupt the offensive in the vicinity of Vuhlehirsk, in order to achieve a “radical change” in further offensive action. During the past day, the enemy command in this area has focused combat-ready units in new directions, restoring the combat capability of its tactical groups that had previously suffered losses.
In particular, in the area of the Debaltseve springboard the enemy transferred an additional 18 tanks, 23 armored fighting vehicles (AFV), in the order of 55 covered trucks. The transfer of forces and means were carried by two main routes: the eastern (via Alchevsk – Stakhanov – Bryanka) and the western (through the Snizhne – Shakhtarsk – Yenakijeve).
Previously transferred to the vicinity of Debaltseve was a consolidated enemy tank unit of 16 tanks (coming from the area of Krasnyi Luch); after taking part in the three-day long battles, it turned out they were defeated (7 tanks were knocked out in the first day of the offensive, 4 tanks were lost during Ukrainian artillery strikes over the next two days, 3 more tanks have failed for various reasons, currently in service were only 2 vehicles, with 3 tanks from those wrecked earlier that insurgents are trying to evacuate to repair).
In the vicinity of Horlivka, terrorists have launched a maintenance and repair center for military equipment damaged in the fighting on the Debaltseve bridgehead. Observed also is an active resupply of fuel and ammunition to this particular locality.
In the area of Donetsk, terrorists are also increasing their tactical strike groups operating in areas adjacent to the “front line.” During the day, the arrival of manpower in 20 covered trucks, as well as 11 units of armored vehicles (including 1 tank) was observed. The total number of groups of Russian-terrorist troops concentrated in the area, is more than 3,000 people, which are distributed in several tactical groups, and constitute the “inner garrison” in Donetsk. Also in the group concentrated in the vicinity of Donetsk, in general, there are about 25 tanks (concentrated in several strike groups, spread over a fairly extended area in the northern and western parts of the city), about 85 ACVs [armored combat vehicles] and artillery support in three groups.
In the vicinity of Krymske and Trokhizbenka (in the area of the Bakhmutske route), as well as in the area between Shchastya and Stanytsia Luhanska the enemy continues to lead active counter-battery fire, but already avoids active offensive operations. (Earlier in the Stanytsia Lyhanska area, terrorists attempted to break through the defense of Ukrainian troops by a combination of massive firing and the action of small mobile groups of infantry, supported by armored vehicles). At the moment, the use of the enemy’s ‘ambush’ and ‘roving’ tank tactics were again noted, supported by mortars (at least two such groups were recorded, occasionally causing fire strikes on the forward positions of Ukrainian troops).
Trokhizbenka evacuation. Photo source:
In Krasnodon, a transport arrived of local insurgents destroyed in the battle for Debaltseve. A ‘consolidated Battalion’ was formed in the village in order to participate in the next attack (about 500 people). In 3 days of active participation in the battles it lost only 51 people (killed).
In the vicinity of Dokuchajevsk, an artillery battery of Russian-terrorist troops (6 ACS 2S1 ‘Gvozdika’) that inflicts fire attacks on the forward positions of Ukrainian troops at the given site, was covered [by a barrage of] Ukrainian artillery [fire]. Ukrainian troops applied long-range artillery systems with intelligence transferred in advance. The attack took place at the time of insurgents’ refueling of artillery systems. Three terrorists ACS [self-propelled artillery] were destroyed.
Source: Dmitry Tymchuk FB
By Zoya Svetova, Russian human rights activist/journalist, for Open Russia
02.04.2015
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine senior staff
A demonstrator holds aloft a picture of Ukranian army officer Nadiya Savchenko, captured by pro-Russian insurgents, bearing the slogan “Free Nadiya Savchenko” during a rally on Independence Square [Maidan] in Kyiv on January 26, 2015 demanding her liberation during an International day of support for her. The first lieutenant of the Ukrainian airforce, helicopter pilot Nadiya Savchenko was captured by pro-Russian insurgents in eastern Ukraine, later taken across the border and handed over to Russia, and charged with the killing of two Russian journalists during the 2014 invasion in Donbas. AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSKY
The Ukrainian pilot announced her hunger strike in the women’s detention center SIZO-6 on Dec. 13, 2014. On January 17, prison doctors decided that Savchenko’s state was deteriorating and sent her to the hospital prison ‘Matrosskaya Tishina’ by ’emergency ambulance.’ The Ukrainian pilot was placed in a special block of the hospital, which Savchenko herself calls the “golden cage.”
In the newly renovated, freshly painted ‘spetsblock’ [special unit] hospital, besides Nadiya Savchenko, there are no other prisoners. In one of the cells, which impresses with its bright tiles, gray tables, white tables, a separate shower and a modern toilet – is a badly emaciated Nadiya Savchenko. She sits in a cell alone, but she is followed by close observation. In the next cell a so-called ‘surveillance post’ is set up, equipped with video equipment, at which a prison officer must always be specifically assigned. In the third chamber – is a treatment room with weights and a sustained [IV] drip. Here Nadiya Savchenko is examined by a doctor, and here she is put on an IV drip. [Ed: previously it was stated this was a glucose drip to prevent dizziness, eye rolling, fainting. Nadiya’s sister Vera stated separately that they have added amino acids to the drip because of recent blood count tests].
In this way, the Ukrainian pilot is ensured complete isolation from all other prisoners. For a walk, Savchenko goes to the exercise yard on the roof, accompanied by a guard dog.
– Physically, I feel fine. Mentally – it sucks. How else can a person feel in prison? In Ukraine, we are not born slaves.
– When we met with you on January 8 in SIZO-6, you said that you will keep up the hunger strike until February. What have you decided now? And under what conditions will you stop it?
– I said that I would hunger strike until all this nonsense ends. An alibi exists, proving my innocence. I did not kill Russian journalists. I never shoot at unarmed people.
– If the court changes the restraint measure to house arrest, you will be accommodated, for example, in the Ukrainian consulate in Moscow, will you stop the hunger strike?
Savchenko laughs:
– Yes, of course, and my mom will come and cook me borscht. I do not cherish any hope in the court. I understand that if they need to demonstratively punish a “Ukrainian fascist” for the murder of Russian citizens, then they will punish. Now they showed me the charge of crossing the border, although they themselves took me into Russia.
– Are there any investigative actions being conducted with you?
– I’ve already even forgotten what the investigator looks like. He has not visited me since the New Year. I am already in my eighth month under investigation. Examination of my military uniform still has not been carried out. With all of this it is necessary to tie it together: either by law, or politically.
– But the Russian government does not give in to blackmail, and your hunger strike – is a kind of blackmail.
– I understand. Spit finds itself on stone. [Ed.: a saying meaning they’ve locked horns]. A ‘goldfish’ while in their hands. It would be easier to die in combat in Ukraine than in prison in Russia. For the sake of what should I live in a Russian prison for 25 years?
– Are not you afraid that you are going to get worse, and the body will not withstand the hunger strike?
– I was in two wars, and am ready to die in the name of justice. Your prime minister Medvedev said that if they cut off the SWIFT system, Russia is ready for all sorts of measures. I am also ready for all sorts of measures. I am holding on by strength of willpower. I will go to the end.
– Have you heard about the case of Svetlana Davydova?
– Yes, I would very much like to write her a letter of support. I hope that Russians will fight for one of their own. It’s time to get up off one’s knees. Her child is two months old, how can one put a nursing mother in prison in harsh conditions?
(The conversation with Nadiya Savchenko was held in the ‘Matrusskaya Tishina’ jail on February 3, before the release of Svetlana Davydova from ‘Lefortovo’ prison. – RR)
– The conditions in Ukrainian prisons are no better than conditions in our prisons.
– This does not surprise me. After all, we come from one [Soviet] Union. We will change the situation.
– How can you change the situation in Ukraine, if you die, unable to withstand the hunger strike?
– The loss of one soldier – is not a lost war.
– The situation may change, and you may be released. Is it worth risking one’s life?
– I admire Nelson Mandela and respect Khodorkovsky. They sat and waited and proved their innocence. For the Russian delegation to PACE there was a good way out of the situation: agree to release me from custody in exchange for keeping the Russian delegation at PACE. It did not happen. [Ed.: the right to vote was taken away from the Russian delegates and they walked out].
– Are not you afraid that if your condition worsens, doctors at ‘Matrusskaya Tishina’ will force feed you?
– I will write a statement to the chief physician and head of the detention center, that I will consider force-feeding to be torture. I will die then.
Source: Open Russia
Dmitry Tymchuk, Head of the Center for Military and Political Research, Coordinator of the Information Resistance group, Member of Parliament (People’s Front)
02.04.2015
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine
As already reported by the Information Resistance group, a consolidated tank unit of 16 tanks that was previously transferred to the vicinity of Debaltseve (which arrived from the area of Krasnyi Luch) after taking part in a three-day combat, has been practically defeated (7 tanks were hit in the first day of the offensive, 4 tanks were lost during strikes by Ukrainian artillery during the two days that followed, 3 more tanks became inoperable for other reasons.
Currently, there are only 2 vehicles at their disposal; insurgents are making attempts to evacuate 3 tanks that were destroyed earlier for repairs).
Exclusive photos from the place of the occupiers’ defeat:
Source: Dmitry Tymchuk FB/Information Resistance website
Andrij Bondar, ukrainischer Schriftsteller und Publizist
Ich habe mich daran erinnert, wie ich im Sommer 2014 ein Büchlein über Rumänien von Malgoschata Reimer übersetzte (es soll demnächst erscheinen). In dem Buch gibt es eine Geschichte über den Rumänen Claudiu Crulic, den die polnische Strafverfolgung ungerechtfertigt des Diebstahls beschuldigte. Auch er blieb seinen Prinzipien treu und trat in Hungerstreik. Auch er hungerte sich zu Tode. Man hätte ihn retten können – aber niemand nahm sich dies besonders zu Herzen. Das System des demokratischen Polen sperrte im Jahr 2008 einen Mensch weg, sah 130 Tage lang ungerührt seiner Selbstvernichtung zu und zuckte danach verlegen mit den Schultern. Nun, lesen Sie diese Geschichte, wenn Sie möchten. Es ist eine grausame Geschichte von der Gleichgültigkeit des Systems und dem kleinen Mann in seinen Mühlen.
Und da lese ich unlängst von den „unumkehrbaren Prozessen“ im Organismus von Sawtschenko … Claudiu Crulic starb nach 130 Tagen des Hungerns. Sawtschenko wird in 10 Tagen die Hälfte dieser Frist erreicht haben. Und man mag nicht daran denken, dass man noch heute, noch morgen, selbst noch in 10 Tagen etwas ändern kann. Aber schon z. B. am 15. oder 20. Februar kann es zu spät sein. Fatal zu spät.
Auch Sawtschenko ist wegen der Gleichgültigkeit des Systems auf sich selbst gestellt. Doch die Geschichte von Nadiia Sawtschenko beobachtet heute die ganze Welt. Und kann nichts tun. Die genaueste Metapher für die Ukraine ist diese mutige und prinzipientreue Frau. Nadiia stirbt. Die Hoffnung ist noch nicht gestorben.
Quelle: Andrij Bondar auf Facebook
Aus dem Ukrainischen von: Tobias Ernst – Fachtexte vom Profi
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