Wings Phoenix: The ‘Cyborgs’ from Donetsk airport send you their warmest greetings!

Posted on October 11, 2014 by chervonaruta

By Wings Phoenix (Iurii Biriukov), army volunteer, Assistant Minister to Col. Gen. Valeriy Heletey, recently appointed Minister of Defense
10.11.2014
Translated by Wings Phoenix Eng and edited by Voices of Ukraine, used with permissions

Good morning Ukraine! The ‘Cyborgs’ [Editor: enemy’s nickname for the Ukrainian soldiers defending the airport] from Donetsk airport send you their warmest greetings! What, the ‘separs’ [Ukrainian nickname for the separatists] took the airport? The terminal building has folded and collapsed? There are only 10 of our protectors left defending the airport? Yeeeah, right…..

No, well, we have to confess, redecorating isn’t going to help the terminal building, although a fundamental renovation is unlikely to help either…. Nonetheless, we have been holding it, we are holding it, and we will continue holding it.

They are asking for little Kyiv cakes (a local brand of sweets)… well then, we will look for them.

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Source, translation: Wings Phoenix Eng
Original source in Russian: Wings Phoenix

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Wings Phoenix: Donetsk airport trip to cheer up the ‘Cyborgs’

Posted on October 11, 2014 by chervonaruta

By Wings Phoenix (Iurii Biriukov), army volunteer, Assistant Minister to Col. Gen. Valeriy Heletey, recently appointed Minister of Defense
10.08.2014
Translated by Wings Phoenix Eng and edited by Voices of Ukraine, used with permissions

The drive to Donetsk airport, the day before yesterday, was not simply for the sake of an adrenaline rush, it was neither extreme nor routine. We could have delivered 2 tons of cargo using regular convoys. However, there also was a request by the command – the Cyborgs [Editor: Ukrainian soldiers defending the airport have been nicknamed “Cyborgs” by the enemy shelling it] needed support, they were not panicking but they needed to be cheered up. No problem, we would cheer them up and cheer ourselves up too.

What was most important, was in the cargo we dropped off:

– 500 liters of water
– cigarettes
– men’s briefs / socks
– wet wipes
– canned food, coffee/ tea, field rations
– gas burner stoves with spare cans [cartridges]
– CAT tourniquets, CELOX, Israeli bandages, medicine dropper systems, medicine
– thermal imaging devices
– a ton of ammunition
– two boxes of RPO-A Shmel (wow! this kind of stuff I’ve never carried in my L200)

What was the most important?

I thought that the ammunition and medicine [would be], but it appeared that the gas stoves were the most important. Yesterday morning, the Cyborgs were drinking hot coffee and were eating a warm breakfast – an unimaginable luxury in the surroundings of a post-apocalyptic landscape. And there were calls with “thank you’s”… And the phrase of the commander: “Phoenix, they are squinting with pleasure!” Brothers, there will be another 50 stoves and 150 spare cans – there will be a hot breakfast and a hot dinner!

I will not write about the trip itself. It was scary. Very scary. But at some point the fear shrunk inside into a tiny ball and the reflexes came to the forefront and cold calculation started working: ‘you need bend down, do not go out into the moonlight, unloading should be done quickly, listen, know where there’s shelter. Where is the shelter? Where the f*ck can one dig a shelter in this concrete dump? How to defend this prefabricated structure built of light design materials that was easily shot through? What can drywall protect you from?

And then, back out to the base with the wounded and the transfer of the body of our hero, who died on Saturday. And the Schubert M826 helmet that absorbed the energy of the shrapnel, and the grateful eyes of the soldier – the owner of this helmet. He remembered the day when I gave it to him, and he will also now remember the night when that helmet saved his life. Zhenya Piven, his torn body… He should not have been there but he decided to go together with his men. He was pushed out on rotation but he wanted to be together with the soldiers. We pulled him out from there and took him to the morgue… Today is the funeral.

At 2 a.m. we were drinking hot coffee and eating stewed meat with onions. Quietly, without the jokes and anecdotes. We escaped from hell but our brothers were there to protect us. And only one poignant thought, a short phrase: “Guys, now in rear [behind the front lines] the giiiirls go to discos…” Laughter, pause, silence. Quietly. Girls… Quietly, quietly, quietly.

When you meet a soldier dressed in unform in the street, know, that he could be one of those. One of those who dreamed at night about the discotheque.

Thank him. Bow to him. He – is your hero. He –is your defender.

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4149 4950 0700 7806 Iurii Biriukov (Юрий Бирюков)

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If you wish to do a money transfer through the client-bank system of another bank or through an ATM of another bank, please use ONLY:
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Original source in Russian: Wings Phoenix

 

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Automaidan videos the Prosecuter General of Ukraine’s estate by drone plane (video + photos)

Posted on October 11, 2014 by chervonaruta

By Vitaly Umanets and HromadskeTV post
10.11.2014
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine

Social activists posted a video captured during a visit by Automaidan to the estate of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Vitaly Yarema.

The video from a radio-controlled drone, as the authors of the video claim, shows the house and a 1 hectare division of land with its own lake, belonging to Yarema.

“Well, how do you like the piece of land with houses on it of the honest policeman-prosecutor, Vitaly Yarema in the luxury cottage area of Zoloche with its own lake on the property? If you look at a satellite map of the area, then this little “scrap piece” is almost 10,000 square meters. The price for a hundred square meters here is $15,000 UAH. You can calculate yourself how much he paid for the land [Editor: approx. $11,578,544 USD]. And that’s just for the land …

Maybe that’s why Mr. Yarema says the lustration law is “unconstitutional?”
–wrote activist Vitaly Umanets, on his Facebook page.

From Voices of Ukraine:
Mr. Umanets wrote in a slightly earlier post: “Our demands to him [Yarema] are simple: to punish the police employees and judges who were involved in the repression against activists during Maidan and not to close their cases, as Mr. Yarema has done.

But rather than comment on the law on lustration as ‘unconstitutional,’ it would be better if the Prosecutor took care of his primary responsibilities! More than 7 (!) months have passed since the shooting down of people in broad daylight in the heart of the Ukrainian capital! No one has been PUNISHED for this crime! No one! But activists who ‘lustrated’ Shufrych in Odessa within a week have all been found and brought in for questioning! Dear ones, it’s for this kind of a country that we fought on Maidan?”

READ MORE:
Tires burn on Bankova in protest over questioning of Shufrych attackers, UNIAN.
Right Sector roughs up Shufrych in Odesa, promises new attacks, KyivPost.

Source: HromadskeTV
Vitaly Umanets FB

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The United States has called for the release of the pilot Savchenko as one of the conditions for the lifting of sanctions

Posted on October 9, 2014 by chervonaruta

By Novayagazeta
10.07.2014
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine

One of the conditions for the lifting of US sanctions against Russia is the release of the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, according to Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland.

In general, she said, the lifting of sanctions will occur in the case of compliance with and enforcement of the Minsk agreement protocol of September 5th.

“If the Minsk agreements were realised as they were written, we would already have started lifting some sanctions from Russia”, –Nuland stated, according to Interfax.

Specific conditions for the ending of US sanctions would be a cessation of hostilities in Donetsk airport, in the settlements of Debaltseve and Shakhtarsk, the withdrawal from Ukraine of foreign troops and military equipment, and the release of all hostages. The US also considers Savchenko a hostage.

In addition to the lifting of sanctions, Nuland said, the implementation of the Minsk agreement will bring peace to eastern Ukraine.

Earlier, the US President Barack Obama said at the UN that the lifting of sanctions will occur after compliance with the Minsk protocol and a change in Russia’s position regarding Ukraine. The Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, Sergei Lavrov, soon informed that the Russian authorities will stand by their positions in Ukraine.

Source: Novayagazet.ru

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Vitaly Portnikov: Putin’s Night Watch, or the Fear of Maidan

Posted on October 9, 2014 by chervonaruta

By Vitaly Portnikov
10.07.2014
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine

Russian changes occur through conspiracy or rebellion – senseless and merciless.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed amendments to the federal law “On meetings, rallies, demonstrations, marches and pickets.” The essence of the change is simple – rallies must end no later than 22:00 hours [10pm], and then satisfied citizens should return home.

It’s clear why the Russian government needed these changes – the fear of Maidan! And the way Putin acts fully reflects his deep misunderstanding of the Ukrainian political process.

Maidan is not a mirror of disrespect for authority. On the contrary, it is a mirror of people’s respect for authority and their desire for a dialogue with it. Both in 2004 and 2014, there was strong opposition in the Ukrainian parliament, which had, in fact, won the parliamentary elections earlier, only ending up in the minority just because of the machinations of the presidential administration. Therefore, Maidan logically reflected the opinion of the majority, not the minority – and the government knew about that. Both in 2004 and 2014, the major decisions were made by the effective Parliament: after 2004, there weren’t even early parliamentary elections, and deputies still elected under Leonid Kuchma, finished their terms under Viktor Yushchenko.

There is nothing similar in Russia – neither opposition, nor parliamentary capacity for independent decisions, nor a society with hopes for the parliament. And there is no point in a Maidan, either. Russian changes occur either through a conspiracy where the head of state and their closest confidants become the victims (except for those who organized the conspiracy), or as a result of the famous Russian riot – senseless and merciless.

Putin, seeing Ukraine as a natural extension of Russia, fails to feel this distinction and continues to believe that the enemies of the regime are preparing a Maidan. But even the biggest mass rallies in the Russian capital – the only serious political center of the country – always ended and never turned into “Maidans.” Only a small group – if at that – was prepared to stay standing on the square, and it was brutally dispersed.

In Russia, there is no point in a Maidan, because the State Duma [Parliament] and the Federation Council are not capable of political initiative and are packed with marginal types and cowards, while the judiciary branch is entirely compromised by its venality, corruption and servility. Russians will not strive to delegate powers to parliament – they will want to dismantle the entire system to the ground. And in this sense, the need for a coup inside the inner elite circle, and for removal of Putin as a means of preserving the system, can begin to objectively mature. If those who are close to the president fail to stage this coup in time – or, more realistically, if Putin himself does not dare to reboot the elite entirely, replacing all those responsible for the imminent economic and political collapse of the country – then the time will come for the most senseless and merciless revolt on the ruins of the dying Russian state.

And the prohibition of night rallies has absolutely nothing to do with that.

Source: Glavred–
“More than 20 years Ukraine was a buffer zone between two systems of civilization – the European one, and the wrong one.”

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