Ukrainska Pravda, 12 April 2014, 22:52
People’s Self Defense asks men to support the mobilization announced for Sunday, and they ask them to come to their headquarters in the Regional State Administration (RSA) building at 9 a.m.
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By Yuriy Butusov
04.12.2013 Facebook
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine
Source: https://www.facebook.com/butusov.yuriy/posts/745823888791243
[On the evening of April 12, 2014] Mr. Andriy Senchenko, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration, made a statement to Censor.net regarding the situation in eastern Ukraine:
“Ukraine is the target of military aggression. Sabotage operations are coordinated and directed by special services of the Russian Federation, while local criminal structures act as the organizational core [of these operations]. The Russian strategy entails organizing subversive attacks on government authorities, aimed at provoking armed conflict. They need victims that would allow anti-Ukrainian propaganda to mobilize peaceful citizens of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts [regions] for protests. Ukrainian authorities succeeded in stabilizing the situation in Kharkiv, Odesa, Mykolayiv, Zaporizhzhya, and Dnipropetrovsk. In Donetsk, instead of the earlier 5,000 to 10,000 strong rallies, only a few hundred people have come out to support separatist statements today.
There is no uncertainty on our part. Rapid response forces have been deployed to their positions. The Crimean scenario cannot be repeated in the eastern oblasts, because the Ukrainian border is controlled by the Ukrainian military, who will open fire in case of a foreign invasion. We will not give up a single inch of Ukrainian land in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. Our goal is to avoid casualties among civilians, whom the bandits use as live shields.
I request that all citizens remain calm and exercise restraint. Sociological surveys show that the main motive of Russian separatist propaganda in the East is the fear of the mythical “Banderites.” We are striving to quench these fears, so let us avoid fanning the flames. Ukrainian authorities will deal with the subversive acts [of the enemy] in the eastern regions using the forces currently present there. We do not require support of volunteers from other oblasts.
To politicians: please refrain from speculating on this crisis and do not call on people in other regions of Ukraine to mobilize for the East. To citizens: please remain calm and do not travel to the eastern regions to help the law enforcement. The above actions [speculation and summons] are, at best, displaying political inexperience, and at worst, playing into the hands of the enemy’s provocations.
Order in the East will be restored peacefully. We will not surrender Luhansk and Donetsk, and we will not spill the blood of Ukrainians, despite the wishes of the foreign aggressor and his attempts to stage a civil war.”
I was in Kyiv. To anyone who hasn’t yet been there – I advise you to go. Especially if you claim to have an opinion about Kyiv. As they say, one look is worth a thousand words.
On the eve of my trip to Kyiv I asked my internet-kitties on Twitter the following question: Can anyone give me instances of any recent violence by extremists in Kyiv? On March 29, on the eve of my departure for Kyiv, Putin in a telephone call to Obama had specifically complained about rampages by extremists. I did not get a single response to my question. The masses of Kremlin trolls who swamp my account, didn’t manage to deliver. Poor things.
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o3.05.2014 Hubs.com.ua
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine
Source: http://hubs.com.ua/discussions/nebesnaya-sotnya-aleksandr-plehanov.html
Architecture student [5th year at the Architecture Department of the Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture] and amateur philosopher whose life was cut short one day before receiving his diploma at his graduation ceremony. On March 7th he would have turned 23.
Oleksandr Plekhanov, a 22-year old student from Kyiv, died on Maidan on the night of February 18th. He died from a bullet wound to the head sustained on the front line. None of his friends, or people who knew him, were there at the time, and the circumstances of his death remain unknown.
He was wearing a level 2 flak jacket and a bicycle helmet. Neither was able to protect him.
The medical personnel of Hospital No. 17 where Alexander was brought pronounced him dead at 2 a.m. on February 19th. Due to a nurse’s inadvertent error, his parents were told that the young man at the hospital was a different Plekhanov. Alexander’s father came to the hospital that night and confirmed that the body was that of his son.
[https://www.facebook.com/iryna.gerashchenko/posts/575820419172442?stream_ref=10]
MP for UDAR party and journalist Iryna Gerashchenko writes in the first few lines of her post above:
The father of Sasha Plekhanov just arrived at #17 hospital. On March 7 the young man would have been 23 years old. All the doctors cried. And we all cried with them. It seems that doctors see blood and grief every day, but this horror – this senseless fratricide – this is not seen.
Plekhanov was part of the protests from the very first days of EuroMaidan. He was not there on Independence Square on November 30th – the night of the violent raid against student protesters. He joined the rally on December 1st, and after that he would come to Maidan once or twice a week – until the day he died.
That day he came to Maidan around 4 p.m., after the Square had been sealed off by “Berkut” forces. He had not been part of the events in Mariinsky Park that day, he spent most of it at the University.
Plekhanov’s girlfriend Anna recalls how Alexander used to say, “who if not me.” And how glad he was that people were not afraid to come out to Maidan. This is what he posted on his page in a social network on December 18:
“There are moments in life when you have to praise yourself. And recognize your achievements.
On December 8th the people in a packed carriage on the Metro were scared to come out to the Maidan. Today we are not afraid.
When “the Party of Slaves” came into power, we were afraid they would not flinch. Today Popov is leaking Klyuev’s and others’ interrogation transcripts, Bogoslovksaya and Korolevskaya are defecting. Hanna Herman looks as pale as death. Today we are not afraid.
It is not enough, but it is an achievement. An achievement of the People of Ukraine.
To which we all contributed – those who stood on Maidan, those whose sons and daughters were there, those who brought food, those who talked to the people.
Those who saw the light and found faith in the new Ukrainian people.
Almost everyone who knew him called him a philosopher. He was not afraid of anyone or anything. He was a kind and fascinating person, and wise beyond his years. He loved sculpture and sculpted for paying clients. He was a keen cyclist and raced competitively.
Another one of his hobbies was competitive ballroom dancing. There is a video of him on the Internet – it is a performance inspired by the part in Troy where Hector says farewell to his loved ones before his duel with Achilles that will end in his death.
Alexander had the leading role.
P.S. For those who would like to help Alexander’s family – his sister’s account is 5457 0822 3046 0763, Bazhanova Yuliya Viktorovna.
Hanna Sinkova, journalist at informator.su
activist Serhiy Bondar before and after meeting Avakov’s cops in the Kharkiv Region.
The first reports are coming in about those activists arrested near Kharkiv or in it.
In particular, these reports to INFORMATOR mention that law enforcement and separatists, armed with automatic rifles, were waiting for them at entrances to the Kharkiv Region on both sides of the road.
Ordinary police made up a majority of the law enforcement personnel, but soldiers from the disbanded Berkut special forces and soldiers from Sokil’ special forces also took part in the arrests. The latter, after breaking bus windows, leapt inside and took activists out onto the road, and then laid them out on the pavement.
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