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Dmitry Tymchuk: Updates from the #RussiaViolatedCeasefire ceasefire zone, 9/15

Posted on September 15, 2014 by chervonaruta

By Dmitry Tymchuk, Head of the Center for Military and Political Research, Coordinator of the Information Resistance group
09.15.2014
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine

Operational data from Information Resistance:

Over the past weekend in the combat zone in Donbas the situation remained tense. Russian-terrorist forces did not stop shelling the positions and checkpoints of the Ukrainian units.

The total recorded, for September 13-14, was at least 40 attacks. The greatest amount of activity of insurgents and Russian troops was in the area of Donetsk, Luhansk, Debaltseve, Popasna. A tense situation persists in the area of Mariupol.
Russian-terrorist forces are shelling not only the positions of Ukrainian troops but also civilian targets, primarily the houses of peaceful civilians.

Also, there are cases of “friendly fire” between the insurgents and the regular army units of the Russian Federation. For example, in the area of Debaltseve, terrorists fired artillery at a subversive and intelligence team of Russian troops. Recorded also were skirmishes between groups of local terrorists, including with artillery. According to our data, these incidents are caused by a low level of interaction between the insurgents, as well as between the leadership of the LNR and DNR [Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics] and the Russian command.

There is a decline of local militants in the total number of Russian-terrorist forces in Donbas. Today, the share is 30%, in some districts of the Luhansk region – up to 40%.

Source: Dmitry Tymchuk FB

Posted in Dmitry Tymchuk, English, English News, South&Eastern Ukraine, War in Donbas | Tagged #ArmUkraine, #RussiaInvadedUkraine, #RussiaViolatedCeasefire, #SaveUkraine, #UkraineUnderAttack, Dmitry Tymchuk, Donbas, Information Resistance, Ukraine | 1 Comment

Colonel, who took Russian tank, will be presented with the title of Hero of Ukraine

Posted on September 14, 2014 by tilamuse

By Liga.net
09.14.2014
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine

Yevhen Sydorenko near the captured tank (Photo: Yuriy Butusov FB)

Colonel Yevhen Sydorenko broke out of the encirclement near Ilovaisk on the captured Russian tank.

Chief of the Armored Weapons Service at the Operational Command “South,” Colonel Yevhen Sydorenko, who came out of the encirclement near Ilovaisk on a Russian T-72 tank, will be presented with the title of Hero of Ukraine. Ukrainian Defense Minister Valeriy Heletey announced this at a press briefing.

At the briefing, Yevhen Sydorenko complained that while Ukrainian media carefully cover the problems faced by volunteer battalions, at the same time they barely highlight the problems of the regular military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who carry out principal combat work at the frontlines.

Colonel Yevhen Sydorenko

Anti-tank gun Rapira

Colonel’s automatic machine gun destroyed by anti-tank missile

Source: Liga.net
Image source: Yuriy Butusov FB

Posted in English, English News, Languages, Media, News, Pictures, Regіons, South&Eastern Ukraine, War in Donbas | Tagged #RussiaInvadedUkraine, #UkraineUnderAttack, #Valeriy Heletey, #war in Ukraine, #Yevhen Sydorenko, Ilovaisk, Ukraine | Leave a comment

WHO ARE WE?

Posted on September 14, 2014 by chervonaruta

By Eva Ivanova
09.13.2014
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine

Ukrops, Zhydo-Banderites, Ukrainians. I get all that. That is what we are as a whole. And what about as individuals?

I read on Yuriy Butusov’s page about Colonel Yevhen Sydorenko, who broke out of the encirclement at Ilovaisk. In detail, with details of the treachery of yesterday’s comrades, about bravery, about death, about battles. I tried to remember what I was doing at that moment, while he alone drove his tank against a column, when his comrades were dying around him.

Nothing good. I was listening to a neighbour tell a story about how great their holiday in Turkey was, I was thinking whether to go out to a party that Saturday which was promised to be a lot of fun, I bought some tasty food at the market, argued over something with my sister, went to the gym.
Something is not right. Don’t you think?
And how should it be otherwise?
Life goes on as usual. For us.

And meanwhile Facebook is flooded with photographs of our boys with sad eyes and severed limbs, the speaker for the ATO also casually mutters about the number of fatalities for the day, for tomorrow they promise mountains of corpses at Debaltseve, Yefremov is not at fault for anything, the cheerful whore Bondarenko twitters about the French.

This is wrong. It is not human.
Church bells should be ringing in alarm, with billboards saying: “what have you done for the front?” at every corner, with music banned in restaurants, with buses from every city going to Mariupol to build fortifications, with the ridiculous programmes on TV removed, and the voice of the announcer Levitan on about trouble in our country.
So that it’s the whole country, and not just the volunteers.

And not because it is war, but because our people are dying, our boys, children. They die for us. And we only get one life.

And it was so damn painful for our captive soldiers at Savur-Mohyla, when they were cutting off their fingers and gouging out their eyes!
I am ashamed to live!

Source: Eva Ivanova FB

Posted in English, English News, War in Donbas | Tagged #RussiaInvadedUkraine, #RussiaViolatedCeasefire, #RussoTerrorists, #SaveUkraine, #UkraineUnderAttack, Ukraine | 1 Comment

Khrystyna Bondarenko: “Serpent” from Crimea. A National Guard soldier.

Posted on September 14, 2014 by chervonaruta

By Khrystyna Bondarenko, Executive Producer, Channel 5 TV
09.
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine

This is “Serpent” from Crimea. A National Guard soldier.

His company was in the storming of Luhansk airport in May, in the mopping up of Lysychansk in June, and now the guys are standing on an extreme Ukrainian checkpoint – just 4 km from the terrorists. Every day the guys pass along a note through a local with the text “You’re all dead.” Each of his days – is a risk.

But these guys are really crazy. I remember that they said they were ready to fight at any time and against any forces. That is fearlessness at it’s most insidious.

Source: Khrystyna Bondarenko FB

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Battalion Commander Bushuy: I will not leave you, I will get you out of anywhere.

Posted on September 14, 2014 by chervonaruta

By Khrystyna Bondarenko, Executive Producer, Channel 5 TV
08.31.2014
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine
All photographs by Yan Dobronosov

Bushuy (Rage) and his dog Bear

“Bushuy” [call name, meaning Rage] and his dog “Bear.” Today at 5:40 am, Bushuy woke us up and said that Grads were being turned in our direction. He ordered us to remain in a concrete room with no windows and, finally, says this: “I will not leave you, I will get you out of anywhere.” And it’s true. The other day he brought the guys out of from under the Grads at their previous home base. You look at him and just believe it. He can, absolutely.

Actually … last night the alarm went off three or four times. One time, for no good reason. Grad missiles were falling very close. The bastards unloaded the entire launcher – 40 cassette shells. They dropped a kilometer away from us.

This is what I tell everyone now, that this distance is all bullshit – it doesn’t even count as shelling. It’s as if it exploded in a different city. It’s close, when it falls up to 50 meters away from you, as it was with the utmost of our checkpoints. There were a couple of 300s [wounded servicemen], but even there, the guys are used to it.

And then we sat like mice without showing our faces on the street [without moving] – while a separsky [slang for separatists] drone was flying. It usually flies before and after the shelling – to learn the results.

Then it was terrifying. And now I know how my body reacts to fear. I begin to get terribly nauseous. “It’s good, – said one of the guys – when you go into battle, you can’t eat or drink anything, then if you are shot in the stomach, then your chances of survival are greater [with an empty stomach] than with a full belly.” Aha, I think, it sounds comforting. I start feeling even more nauseous.

But with them … somehow I was calm. They are all so even-tempered. Real men. Their eyes, of course, are far from good. And what did you think? Every one of them has happened to lose a friend.

There are jokes, of course. But army jokes, cruel [ones]. It’s seldom that someone tries to apologize for the swearing in the speech, but after your “shit, Grads again, what-iffing,” the line gets erased. If you’ve come to the war, then you are no longer a woman. You’re just like them. And one needs to tuck away any weakness now and for the long haul. Snivelling is also impossible. You can smile, powder your nose, put on lipstick – you have to be beautiful even here. No, even more so here – at the front lines. Soldiers are men too, after all. )

There will be more in the second episode of “Ukraine: Surviving the Fire.” Soon, very soon on [Ukraine] Channel 5.