You should have seen the faces of the tankers (photo essay)

By Serhiy Takhmazov
12.26.2014
Transl. & edited by VoU

You should have seen the faces of the tankers, how happy they are! And hearing that the little mandarins are from his native Kryvyi Rih …. how incredibly little one needs for happiness. Thank you – Sergey Celsium Tsypkin

Source: Serhiy Takhmazov FB

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Russische Marineinfanterie bei der Erstürmung des Flughafens Donezk

Russischer Sender Rossija 1 zeigt russische Marineinfanterie bei der Erstürmung des Flughafens Donezk !!!

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Donetsk region police chief: updates on Debaltseve and Vuhlehirsk today (PHOTOS) #FreeSavchenko

By Vyacheslav Abroskin, Donetsk region police chief
1.19.2015
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine

Update:
Today, at 07:45, the terrorists shelled Debaltseve with their artillery.
They damaged homes in the central part of the city. 10 residents with injuries of varying severity were taken to the city hospital. In serious condition is a girl, 8 years old, and her mother, born in 1983.

There was a direct hit to a private home. It killed a boy, 12 years old, and his father.

Employees of the Debaltseve city police department are helping to analyze the debris.

Source: Vyacheslav Abroskin FB

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Vuhlehirsk. Terrorists are firing from “Grads” from the Yenakievo side.
A direct hit to a private home. Killing children – boys, 7 and 16 years. A girl, 8 years old, is in serious condition. Decided – to deliver her to Kramatorsk.
An  investigative team is working at the scene.
All that remains of the house.

Source: Vyacheslav Abroskin FB

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Arsen Avakov: We must remain human to overcome the evil shooting at us #FreeSavchenko

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Arsen Avakov. Image from WikiPedia.

Arsen Avakov, Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
01.18.2015
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine

Eight-year-old Tanya Chernobay went to visit the neighbours to watch a movie – [with] Hryhoriy Komarovskyi and Roman Mysochka, boys, 7 and 16 years old.
At 2:45 pm, their private house in Vuhlehirsk was hit from the direction of Yenakiieve by reactive missiles from [MLRS] Grads. The boys died instantly, and the girl was taken to hospital with injuries. She is alive …

You walked the streets, held each other by the hands, had before your eyes the terrorist shooting of the bus near Volnovakha. You walked and each thought about those thousands who died in this war, started by insurgents and the Russians. You walked, and meanwhile they fired into residential neighborhoods… Avdiivka, Krasnohorivka, Vuhlehirsk

Yes, I spoke to the head of the OSCE mission. Yes, he assured me that he would immediately contact the Donetsk insurgents demanding they cease the shelling. Yes, that is all true … but …

Until Russia stops delivering deadly missiles and stops participating in the shooting-up of Ukraine – this war will not end. It’s not about the insurgents and the separatists – [our] people will sweep them away within a week. The only question is, whether the Russians will stop driving deadly missiles into Ukraine in [their] “humanitarian convoys” …

This war will subside and erupt, but the end of this war will only come with the end of Putin’s regime. There will be no other end [to the war] …

This time befell us – the time to endure the trials and the sorrow, the time to be strong. The time not to break down and to endure through hard times. The time to survive and to retain [our] humanity. The time to take care of one another. The time to protect a far-away and unfamiliar house – somewhere in Vuhlehirsk or Mariinka – as your own …

Hang on, people! And remain human – it is the only way to overcome the evil shooting at us …

Source: Arsen Avakov FB 

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“The First” – Story of One Interview on the Front Lines (VIDEO w/Eng subtitles)

Right Sector members at a rest stop. Photo by Docutoloka.

Right Sector members at a rest stop.
Photo by Docutoloka.

This video is part of a Neo-Kozak documentary epic, a series of documentary essays titled Rokada [War Road].

Rokada is an ongoing project by Docutoloka, an artistic and documentary community association, founded to create and represent Ukrainian art in the world, and currently dedicated to chronicling the new Russian-Ukrainian war.

“The First” is more than the number of the film in the series. “First” is also the callsign of Dmitry Yarosh – the leader of the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps “Right Sector.” The makers of this video had to take a dangerous journey to meet Callsign First. The resulting interview, interspersed with footage of their trip, is the first documentary of the Rokada series.

Dmytro Yarosh:
We thought that after the revolution, we could engage in civilized politics. Unfortunately, that was not the case. Instead, we were forced to take up weapons again, and this time, not sticks and Molotov cocktails, but actual firearms. With automatic weapons, grenade launchers, machine guns in our hands, we went to defend our Homeland…


Authors:
Vladimir Demchenko – http://www.facebook.com/DocuToloka
Dennis Strashnyi – http://www.facebook.com/bonaventura.tankovsky
Find more videos in the series on the Docutoloka YouTube channel.

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