Dmytro Firtash and Yuriy Boyko
By Serhiy Leshchenko, Ukrainska Pravda, April 4, 2014
One of the most powerful political clans in Ukraine is on the verge of destruction. The so-called “gas group,” headed by Dmytro Firtash, Serhiy Lyovochkin and Yuriy Boyko, may lose significant influence or even disappear as a result of the charges brought by U.S. justice against their leader.
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Quelle: https://www.facebook.com/boris.reitschuster/posts/853735244641665
Krim-Warnung:
Die Deutsche Botschaft in Moskau mahnt Diplomaten und Dienstpass-Besitzer wie Lehrer eindringlich, nicht auf die Halbinsel zu fahren. Weil die Bundesrepublik die “Sezession” der Krim nicht anerkenne und der Anschluss gegen das Gewaltverbot verstoße, dürfe nichts geschehen, was als Anerkennung “des so geschaffenen Zustands verstanden werden müsste. Zitat: “Das gilt auch für Personen, deren Verhalten nach den äußeren Umständen Deutschland zugerechnet werden würde.”
Reisen von Diplomaten, Lehrern mit Dienstpass etc. würden von der russischen Seite als “Bestätigung der Legitimität” der Krim-Behörden gesehen.
Bemerkenswerter Klartext in einem Rundschreiben der Botschaft, über das m.W. in der Presse nie etwas erschienen ist.
Dmitry Tymchuk, Information Resistance
04.05.2014 Facebook
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine
“Information Resistance”
According to Information Resistance group’s operational data, as of today, individual businesses in the Ukrainian military and industrial complex are still delivering military products to Russia.
Earlier, the management of the state concern “Ukroboronprom” announced that such deliveries had been stopped. However, separate contracts with Russia go through other government agencies, and “Ukroboronprom” has no way to exercise control over them.
For example, according to our data, in the interests of their Russian customers, the “Arsenal” plant in Kyiv continues to manufacture the homing warheads for “air-to-air” R-73 guided missiles that are later delivered to the Russian Federation. (Homing warhead “Lighthouse” that is used with these missiles was developed at “Arsenal” as well.)
For your reference, the combat aircraft widely used in the Russian Air Force use R-73 missiles (MiG-29, MiG-31, Sukhoi Su-24, Sukhoi Su-27), and the newest (MiG-35, Sukhoi Su-35S), as well as the promising designs currently under development (Sukhoi PAK FA).
By Aleksandr Karavashenko
04.04.2014
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine
Source: https://www.facebook.com/ruda.pani/posts/265617606945723
My acquaintance from the city of Enerhodar recently told me about her neighbor.
The neighbor also lives in Enerhodar (Zaporizhzhya oblast [region]), and her father named Dodik (he is under 70) has been living in Israel for a long time. Today, he appeared on camera for their Skype video call holding a compress over a considerable shiner under his left eye. The daughter got worried:
– Dad, what happened?
– My dear, I escaped the worst, but my neighbor Marek wasn’t so lucky, he got hit in the head with a brick.
– What, I don’t understand what’s happening, have the Arabs rebelled again?
– No, dear, it’s worse, Moskals [derogatory for Russians] are beating us!
– What??? Can you please explain to me what Moskals are doing in Israel?! – the daughter exclaimed, alarmed.
– You know, Marek and I went to the Ukrainian embassy, since we are from Ukraine. And what exactly have we done, we only managed to shout “Glory to Ukraine!” twice, when the Russian Jews, the ones who are pro-Russia, started throwing stones at us. We call them Moskals. Most of all, I was shocked by my neighbor Sopha, we’ve been living across from her for 20 years now, so she and her son kept throwing the bricks and stones at us with Marek and shouted that we were “Banderite mugs.” Someone hit me, and I was barely able to run to the car, but Marek was taken to the hospital! Can you imagine, I was called the “Zhyd [derogatory for Jewish man] mug” in the Soviets, and now I’ve become a “Banderite mug” in Israel! How do you like that? Ok, I’ll go change the compress.
– Dad, I will definitely call you tomorrow!
The next day, when the daughter Skyped her father again, she saw him sporting a metal contraption on his head. On the front was sloppily written with fresh paint: “Ukraine.”
The events in Ukraine have divided [the people in Israel] into two camps.
– Dad, has something happened again, why are you wearing a pot on your head?
– My dear daughter, this is not a pot, but our Israeli helmet, I am wearing it so I don’t have my head broken. Marek is feeling better, so we are going to the Ukrainian embassy again, but now wearing our helmets.
– Dad, have you completely gone out of your mind, you are almost 70?! Why on earth would you put your head under stones and bricks?! Don’t go to any embassy, do you hear me?
– How can I not go, if the world is going mad? Yesterday, the Russian Jews had a fight with the Ukrainian [Jews] by the Wailing Wall, sacred for all Jewish people. And you know, the Russians beat our people just because there were more of them. And all of them are watching Russian TV channels!
– Wait, Dad, but you supported Russia as well. No?
– Yes, I did. But you told me yourself that everything is quiet in Ukraine and no one defiles Jewish synagogues, and so it means that the Russian channels are lying. And Marek has confirmed it. So, I came to Ukraine’s side, we moved to Israel from there after all. Russia wants to occupy Ukraine, and I am worried about you.
– Dad, we never had a synagogue in Enerhodar, and that is why no one could defile it, and our station is safely guarded like any nuclear object. Everything is quiet here. Dad, I am begging you, sit at home, you can get hurt!
– Well, now I have the helmet. And the Moskals have gotten so insolent, they have taken our Crimea! No, I will go to the Ukrainian embassy and will start shouting: “Glory to Ukraine!”
Quelle: https://www.facebook.com/peter.koller.735/posts/761822437162283?stream_ref=10
(Ein aktueller Beitrag im Forum von Spiegel Online)
Der Westen sollte aufhören, sich der Illusion hinzugeben, dass es sich bei der derzeitigen russischen Führungsspitze um zivilisierte Menschen handelt, mit denen man reden und Kompromisse schließen kann. Diese Herren verstehen leider nur die Sprache von Macht und Härte.
Was auf den Tisch muss sind knallharte, kompromisslose Forderungen:
Sofortige Rücknahme des Annexionsbeschlusses, Abzug aller russischer Soldaten bis auf die vertraglich vereinbarte Truppenobergrenze, Absetzung von Aksionov und Konstantinov, Rückgabe des geraubten staatlichen Eigentums, zuzüglich einer saftigen Entschädigung an die Ukraine, OSZE-Mission auf der Krim und eine neue Regionalregierung unter internationaler Kontrolle.
Die Alternative hierzu kann nur lauten: sofortige Aufnahme der Ukraine in die Nato. Denn genau das fürchten die Russen wie der Teufel das Weihwasser. Der Westen hält also sehr wohl einige Trümpfe in der Hand. Er muss sich nur trauen, diese auch auszuspielen.
Generell spricht nichts gegen die Durchführung eines neuen Referendums auf der Krim, aber dies hat unter internationaler Beobachtung und unter Einhaltung demokratischer Spielregeln zu erfolgen. Zustimmungsraten von 123 %, wie kürzlich in Sevastopol sollten dabei möglichst unterbleiben (so etwas trägt in erheblichem Maße zur Glaubwürdigkeit eines Wahlergebnisses bei).
Ich bin überzeugt, dass die derzeitige ukrainische Regierung – im Februar 2014 durch das 2012 gewählte Parlament demokratisch ernannt – und der zu erwartende künftige Präsident Poroschenko besonnen genug sind, um der Krim eine erweiterte Autonomie zu gewähren und die Rechte der russischsprachigen Bevölkerungsmehrheit auch weiterhin zu respektieren.
