Dmitry Tymchuk’s Military Blog: Summary – July 10, 2014

Dmitry Tymchuk, Coordinator, Information Resistance
07.10.2014
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine

Brothers and sisters!

information_resistance_logo_engHere’s the Summary for July 10, 2014 (for previous summary, please see Summary for July 8).

The bad news:

1. Yesterday we recorded the transfer of two battalion tactical groups of Russian troops to the border areas of the Russian Federation, at the state border with Ukraine. Today, the RNBO [National Security and Defense Council] confirmed a further advancement of Russian troops to the border.

It is unlikely that Putin has finally decided to invade Ukraine. We all have been through this already. The Kremlin continues to play on [our] nerves, trying to destabilize the situation in the East of our country to the maximum, and [is attempting] to provide “moral support” for its lackeys in the face of terrorists running with their tail between their legs from the ATO forces.

I do not think that Moscow’s provocations like this will save little fighters in Donbas. But still, there is hardly anything pleasant in such behavior by Putin. [It is] always alarming when [you] deal with a miscreant [holding] a grenade in his stump.

2. Today at the border crossing checkpoint “Dolzhansky,” another IFV [infantry fighting vehicle] hit a landmine. Again, our guys died…

I don’t know how many thousands of mines Russian mercenaries brought to Donbas from Russia. But what is clear is that they decided to make a new Cambodia from Luhansk and Donetsk Oblasts [regions]. The country, the land which is packed full with death.

The events in Donbas will end, the graves of “Russian world” advocates will sprout with moss, and we have to take great efforts to rid our land from their deadly tracks. The scum cannot disappear without shitting everywhere.

3. And another one of these tracks. According to statements by security forces, the Donbas settlements freed from terrorists are currently experiencing high levels of crime. Mountains of weapons and a sea of ammunition. How to find and seize them is unclear.

Here a word to the Interior Minister [Arsen Avakov]. In order to return these districts to a peaceful and stable life soon, one needs the extremely efficient work of law enforcers. With whom, as you know, these oblasts have big problems.

The good news:

1. In the ATO zone, not only does the scheduled rotation of security forces take place, but additional units keep arriving as well. 

This is more than relevant. To block terrorists in places of their accumulation requires resources. [Resources] are also needed to [maintain] control of the liberated territories. In Sloviansk, [security forces] have already worked out the technique of catching disguised terrorists with sausages, but how many more of them will have to be caught by their shirttails at waste heaps–God only knows.

2. The terrorists acquired some “aviation.” Today, this news shocked social networks. Like, terrorists brought a disassembled airplane on a trailer to the airfield in the village of Mospyne near Donetsk.

We also received this information. We were surprised. We started checking it out.

According to our data, the plane does exist. This is a museum exhibit that the little insurgents have stolen for some purpose. However, they [insurgents] announced that they were looking for aviators [to pilot] this aircraft. Then they obviously need a museum caretaker.

In general, pro-Russian terrorist kleptomania is astounding. It completely mimics its host. Who, it’s true, immediately swiped a peninsula from Ukraine, whereas all this rabble continues to train on museum exhibits. God help you.

I am waiting with dread for the “DNR” [Donetsk People’s Republic] to throw their secret weapon into battle–a squadron of strategic air balloons and the aircraft battalions of kite masters. This will be a terrible sight.

3. The EU has expanded its sanctions list to 11 more Russians from among those with personal sanctions against them, i.e. freezing assets and restrictions on entry, because of their involvement in the crisis in Ukraine. The Russian Foreign Ministry immediately whined, saying that it “is an unfriendly act which will affect relations between Russia and the EU.”

Meanwhile, on July 15-16, an EU summit will take place, where the consideration of the third round of sanctions against Russia is expected.

Today, we, the IR coordinators, met with representatives of the EU institutions in Ukraine. The conclusion of the hour and a half of conversation [is as follows]: in Europe, a quiet confrontation between those who adequately perceive the Russian threat, and Putin’s lobbyists, continues. We cannot say that Putin’s lobby will be crushed in three seconds and that he has no chance. But there are plentry of those [people] in Europe, who support us wholeheartedly, and this is very encouraging.

Source: Dmitry Tymchuk FB

 

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ROMAN DONIK: Stop judging and trust the professionals

By Roman Donik, army volunteer
07.07.2014
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine

Only the laziest haven’t already kicked at the military, National Guard and ATO leadership these days.

And those who tend to kick at them are theorists as a rule, who don’t do shit themselves. Or they might do [something] but are not independent thinkers and do everything on someone’s pointers / orders / request.

Those who are active and independent keep silent or rejoice. Even if you have any questions [regarding the events], this is not yet an occasion to ask them out loud.

War is a bitch, not like a game of chess or a route laid out by an iPhone.

In war, there are so many circumstances and variables that need to be taken into account, one could never have dreamed of. Take my word for it.

And every mistake, it’s not a lousy comment or too-few likes. These are the lives of our guys. Or deaths. As you like.

And the greater the blunder, the greater the losses. Our losses.

And Sloviansk… The moral and ideological victory achieved by its liberation is so brilliant that it’s even hard to explain.

Just too many little things, unknown to civilian residents, are intertwined there.

We have traveled and walked around practically all of Donetsk Oblast. We have travelled across the part of it, and walked around the territory occupied by, the enemy.

We regularly talk with the locals. With different locals. Sloviansk was a key figure in their minds.

And even traders at the Kharkiv market believed that the war had been unleashed to destroy Donbas in order to pump shale gas.

And according to the Kremlin’s propaganda, Sloviansk was supposed to be wiped off the face of the earth, and the locals [were supposed to be] shot and destroyed with a bombing.

Since they prevent the State Department from pumping shale gas.

Donbas feeds everyone, remember? Now, so as not to lose the foundation underfoot of the Soviet ideology about coal, which nobody fucking wants, people of Donbas were thrown a new gum–shale gas for the State Department.

You can laugh or just smile. But they are fighting for it. They are dying for it. They are protecting their families, which by order of the State Department junta, will be destroyed by artillery fire.

That is why the separatists are shelling peaceful neighborhoods. For this lie to work. For the natives to know: Banderites came to erase them from the face of the earth on orders from the State Department.

And in their fairy tales Sloviansk was the richest [gas] deposit.

And now they don’t blow it up. They don’t shell it and do nothing at all [with it].

This is a colossal crack in the entire ideological monolith of the separatists.

And as for the fact that [Ukrainians] let them leave quietly…

You should tell this to the paratroopers who cleaved the convoy and fought off the buses with kids that separatists drove for cover. Tell [this] to residents of the villages the convoy went past, when the gunfire died down on their outskirts and resumed after the villages [were passed]. Or tell [this] to those guys at the checkpoints where the separatist tanks broke through.

For the third day now, everyone is wishing RIP regarding the death of Volodya [colloquial for Volodymyr] Mamadaliyev. I slept next to him in a tent.

So, he was killed at a checkpoint during the attempted invasion. Ripped apart by a direct hit. They managed to hold back this attack.

Seven 200s [military code for dead] and seven 300s [mil. code for the wounded].  And you keep on further saying that traitors allowed the convoy to freely pass by.

I don’t know all the circumstances and considerations. I don’t know why and for what reason such a decision was made.

But I’m sure this was the only correct [decision], under the circumstances at that time.

And every unit of the enemy’s armored transport broken on the way is dozens, hundreds of our guys’ saved lives.

I’m not trying to persuade anybody.

I’m just asking those who don’t have all the information to shut up, not to distribute the influx of information from the enemy side, not to help the enemies but to trust the professionals and wait for results.

And to support our guys with whatever possible. Even prayer. Even faith in them.
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This is some of the separatist equipment that remained on the road from Sloviansk.

Are you still taking about a missed convoy?

Source: Roman Donik FB https://www.facebook.com/skitalec/posts/768155479883082

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VOLODYMYR MAMADALIEV, Lt. Colonel who died on Mount Karachun

By Alexey Arestovich, army volunteer and motivational speaker
07.04.2014
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine

Screen Shot 2014-07-10 at 9.42.14 AM15 minutes ago, my first classmate died–Lt. Colonel Volodymyr Mamadaliev, and once upon a time just Vovka [diminutive of Volodymyr]. A squad commander of the 4th cadet platoon. I was a deputy commander on armaments in the 3rd [cadet platoon].

[Mount] Karachun.

I remember, how, during the course of a young soldier, we filled out questionnaires, and had to indicate our nationality. Vovka’s father was somewhere from Central Asia.

Well and his last name, of course.

And I asked him:

–And who are you by your nationality?

And he told me, in such a hurt and proud manner:

–I am a Ukrainian!..

Now­–for sure.

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Lt. Col. Mamadaliev, who died on Mount Karachun, leaves behind a wife (who also serves at the Armed Forces of Ukraine) and a 12-year old son.

Source: Alexey Arestovich FB 

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Ukrainian Government annulled benefits to former bureaucrats

07.09.2014
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine

Ostap Semerak

Ostap Semerak

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine cancelled the benefits of former government officials and their families, Cabinet Minister Ostap Semerak announced.

“We have canceled the government’s decision on benefits for former officials.

 

The government’s position is that the citizens of Ukraine shall not finance former, current and future officials,” he said.

In particular, those benefits included: medical, spa treatment of former officials and their families, living off the services of the State Management of Affairs, transportation and monetary allowances.

Moreover, Semerak added that the government would appeal to the Verkhovna Rada [Ukrainian Parliament] with a proposal to cancel all the benefits provided to former officials.

According to the Minister, on July 9, the government also adopted a resolution on the withdrawal of one-time and regular payments to bureaucrats for the years of service and honest work. “In fact, we stripped the army of bureaucrats from allowances which made pensions much larger than an average pension in Ukraine. From now on, there won’t be such allowances,” he said.

Semerak announced that Prime Minister Yatseniuk will sign this government resolution some time on July 9, and it will become effective immediately.

Source: RadioSvoboda.org
Image: Andriy Bashtovyy/RadioSvoboda.org 

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What are Ukrainians?

By Tanya Fedchyshyna
07.09.2014
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine

A Belarusian wrote this on odnoklassniki [the Russian equivalent of classmates.com]. In my opinion, he nailed it:

I suddenly realized what Ukrainians remind me of. They are like BEES. Just like bees, they fly peacefully, work, collect pollen, produce honey, raise their young. [They] collect from one flower to another, and bring it home. So peaceful and passive.

[They] never touch anyone… Until you get into THEIR beehive to take THEIR belongings. From ploughmen, they turn into warriors. And everyone of them is a combat unit in itself. The more you attack them–the more they unite and protect their own.

Screen Shot 2014-07-09 at 9.07.11 PMSource: Felix Holbert FB
Image Source: Travelwestukraine.net

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