Dmitry Tymchuk: Military update 9.15 #FreeSavchenko

information_resistance_logo_engDmitry Tymchuk, Head of the Center for Military and Political Research, Coordinator of the Information Resistance group, Member of Parliament (People’s Front)
09.15.2015
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine

Operational data from Information Resistance:

The situation in the ATO [anti-terrorist operation] zone remains tense. Russian-terrorist troops continue shelling and armed provocations, and using sabotage and reconnaissance groups to conduct raids into the rear of the Ukrainian troops.

In the area between the settlements of Travneve and Zaitseve, an infantry terrorist group of 15-20 militants dispersed throughout the “greenery” fired small arms on the ATO control and supervisory point and stronghold.

On the Artemivsk direction of operations, namely, in the area of Lozove, Ukrainian positions were shelled from heavy machine guns. The ATO forces’ positions near Mayorsk, Sanzharivka, and Krymske were also fired on.

A group of enemy snipers continue to operate in the area of the settlement of Luhanske.

Between the settlements of Trokhizbenka and Shchastya, activity by an enemy sabotage and intelligence unit was observed.

In some areas near the contact line, Russian-terrorist troops are combing the area, in search of sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the ATO forces, and conduct “preventive” shelling of the “greenery” located in the neutral zone.

[The enemy] continues engineering and earthworks to equip a battalion defense region east of Makiivka. Between the towns of Chermalyk and Mykolaivka, the terrorists continue laying minefields.

The regrouping of enemy forces continues, as does the supply of material and technical resources to the positions of Russian occupation forces:

– Near the towns of Mar’inka and south of Avdiivka, terrorists are regrouping at the front line, and 3 IFVs [infantry fighting vehicles] were withdrawn from their positions;

– South of Starobesheve (in the direction of Komsomolske), terrorist positions were reinforced with four armored combat vehicles [ACVs];

– 5 IFV [infantry fighting vehicles] were deployed to the area of Novoazovsk;

– A tank unit, withdrawn from Horlivka, was redeployed to the Vuhlehirsk area;

Recently modified Russian tanks filmed this week In Horlivka. Source.

Recently modified Russian tanks filmed this week In Horlivka. Source.

– A terrorist mechanized infantry unit on board of APCs [armored personnel carriers], up to one company in strength, was transferred to the area of Mykolaivka (east of Luhansk).

Representatives of the so-called”Prosecutor’s Office” of the “DNR” started work in the so-called “motorized infantry regiment” of the “1st Army Corps” (of the “DNR” [Donetsk Peoples Republic]), whose militaries had previously shot several residents of the Novoazovsk district while drunk. According to some reports, the gang is to be disbanded.

According to sources in the “LNR” [Luhansk Peoples Republic], the Russian Federation is planning a delivery of large volumes of rubles [Russian currency] to Luhansk in late September.

Source: Dmitry Tymchuk FB 

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Dmitry Tymchuk: Military update 9.14 #FreeSavchenko

information_resistance_logo_engDmitry Tymchuk, Head of the Center for Military and Political Research, Coordinator of the Information Resistance group, Member of Parliament (People’s Front)
09.14.2015
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine

Operational data from Information Resistance:

During the quiter period, Ukrainian military servicemen are constructing trench shelters. Photo by Vlad Lemm. Source

During the quiter period, Ukrainian military servicemen are constructing trench shelters. Photo by Vlad Lemm. Source

The situation remains rather tense in the ATO zone; the enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups intensified their activities along several sections of the demarcation line simultaneously. Shelling of the ATO forces’ positions was observed from small arms and RPGs. Occasionally, sporadic fire by terrorists from AGS-17 automatic grenade launchers and 82-mm mortars was observed.

In particular, activity by Russian terrorist forces’ sabotage and reconnaissance groups was recorded in the area of Avdiivka, in the direction of Artemivsk, near Stanytsia Luhanska, in the areas between the towns of Popasna and Shchastya, and Volnovakha and Telmanove. The enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups are scouting out the ATO forces’ tactical rear and combat detachments; [they] carry out short-lived attacks on the strongholds and checkpoints of Ukrainian troops, and install landmines in the area – during the last few days, seven landmine and trip wire explosions by ATO servicemen were recorded.

In the area between Luhanske and Myronivske, a group of snipers operated under cover of heavy machine guns.

In the area of ​​Mar’inka, the ATO forces were fired at from small arms and 82 mm mortars.

South of Telmanove, in the vicinity of Mykolayivka, several enemy infantry groups carried out two short fire strikes on the positions of Ukrainian troops.

In addition, the relocation of Russian-occupier troops and the transfer of supplies to the places of their deployment continues. In particular, a convoy of four BMP-2 armored personnel carriers, two MT-LB vehicles, and two KAMAZ [cargo trucks] arrived in Starobesheve from Amvrosiivka. South of Luhansk, in the vicinity of Novosvitlivka, a ​​mechanized infantry unit of militants on board of an APC was observed, accompanied by 4 fuel tankers. Two terrorist tank companies arrived in the area of Yenakijeve, accompanied by a BRM-1K armored reconnaissance vehicle and 6 army [cargo] trucks.

In the area of Makiivka, a battalion defense area is being constructed (up to 5 km [3.1 miles] along the frontline and over 2 km [1.2 miles] deep).

The “LNR” [Luhansk Peoples’ Republic] began to staff the so-called border detachment that would be posted at the Russian-Ukrainian border on the territory controlled by Russian-terrorist forces. As of this time, two units have been formed, up to one combined arms company in size.

Public executions started in Horlivka. A local commander of a checkpoint was shot dead by Russian servicemen for an attempted unauthorized fire from an artillery unit.

Russian command in the Petrovskyi district of Donetsk handed down and carried out an execution of two local terrorists for insubordination.

Source: Dmitry Tymchuk FB 

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Nadiya Savchenko: I will return to Ukraine at any cost. And I do not compromise with scumbags. #FreeSavchenko

A captured pilot and a member of Verkhovna Rada, Nadiya Savchenko told Focus about the effectiveness of her hunger strike as a protest method and what she would say to the Russian President Vladimir Putin.

By Milan Lelich
08.21.2015
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine

On August 21 [2015], Rostov Regional Court denied to defer consideration of Nadiya Savchenko’s case, a captured Ukrainian pilot, [back] to Moscow. Savchenko herself participated in the [court] hearing via video conference from the prison detention center in the city of Donetsk, Rostov region [Russia], where court hearings will soon resume. Nadiya answered several questions for Focus.

In what conditions are they currently holding you? Are conditions [here] different from conditions at the Voronezh and Moscow prisons?

– All prisons are the same because they are all prisons. But I feel better here because [this prison] is closer to Ukraine and people understand the Ukrainian [language].

Do you have access to information about what is happening in Ukraine and in the world? Who has visited you in detention other than [your] attorneys?

– All information about Ukraine and the world comes to me through the distorted mirrors of the Russian media. Besides the lawyers, I see my relatives one or two times a month.

You declared extended hunger strikes – did they bring about some kind of result? Are you going to resort to this method of protest again?

– This method achieved a certain result. I believe that if I had not stopped the hunger strikes, the result would have been better. In the future, I will have to resort to more radical methods – a hunger strike is not enough.

What do you expect from the upcoming trial?

– One can only expect a show, and not justice, from a circus.

Do you see a possibility of your release and return to Ukraine in the foreseeable future? Are you willing to compromise with the Russian authorities?

– I will return to Ukraine at any cost. And I do not compromise with scumbags.

There were reports that you planned to write a will before your transfer to Novocherkassk [a city in Rostov region, Russia]. Did you manager to write it?

– No, they would not let me do it at the detention center.

Do you notice the efforts that Ukrainian authorities undertake to [ensure] your release?

– Ukrainian people put more effort in [to this].

If you could say something to President Vladimir Putin now, what would it be?

– Better resign while you still can.

Source: Focus.ua 

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A. P. Sergeev on solidarity hunger strike with Savchenko in Moscow. #FreeSavchenko

Alexander P. Sergeev on hunger strike in solidarity with Nadiya Savchenko (for 23 days on March 5th) with his wife. Sergeev is [at least] 65 years old [another report said he was 73].

65-year-old Moscow resident Alexander Sergeev, a former “chernobylets” has been on hunger strike from February 10, demanding that charges against Nadiya Savchenko be dropped. Periodically, he stands with a poster on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow. Serheyev said that they are forced to defend the honor of their country one by one [Russian law prohibits protests of more than 1 person], “so that in Ukraine they understand that not all Russians have become brutes.”

Published on Feb 14, 2015

A man goes on a hunger strike in Moscow to protest against unlawful detention of Nadiya Savchenko while bystanders shame him with typical Russian TV propaganda narrative and lack of understanding of what it means to defend the law of one’s own country.

english subs:

Video by Yuri Timofeev:

Source: http://grani.ru/Politics/Russia/activism/m.238713.html

Interview with his wife picketing:

 

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Nadiya Savchenko was smuggling the pages of her book in her ears.

Halyna TereshchukBy Halyna Tereshchuk, journalist, Radio Svoboda
09.12.2015, 23:47 Kyiv
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine

Nadiya Savchenko’s book was presented at the publisher’s forum in Lviv; she is a Ukrainian soldier currently imprisoned in Russia.

Vira Savchenko speaking at book launch in Lviv of her sister, Ukrainian pilot and MEP Nadiya Savchenko’s book, written in Russian prison while on a hunger strike protest of her kidnapping, abduction to Moscow and being held illegally, now for over a year. Screenshot from video (in Source link below).

In Lviv, at the publishers’ forum, prisoner Nadiya Savchenko’s book, “It’s A Strong Name, Hope” [‘Nadiya’ translates to ‘Hope’ in English] was presented by the Justinian Publishing House [who publish primarily books related to law]. She wrote the text in the Moscow prison during her hunger strike. She handed over the curled-up pages to her lawyer, smuggling them inside her ears and hidden in her clothes. A documentary about Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko’s capture was also shown during the book presentation.

“Dear Readers, my apologies that this book is not written in a lofty style. But, as they say, ‘a word dropped out of a song makes it all wrong.’ So I have written simply, conversationally.”–were the words Nadiya Savchenko wrote to her readers. [Read Chapter 1: Iraq here]. Nadiya’s sister – Vira [which translates to ‘Faith’ in English] – explained during the presentation that Nadiya started writing the book in Moscow, during her hunger strike, and that she was inspired to [carry out] this labor by [her] lawyer and Russian human rights activist Ilya Novikov.

Vira Savchenko

Vira Savchenko

“She said to him – fine, you can have your book, because I want to die. She had already been on hunger strike then for over 40 days. Nadiya wrote a book very quickly [in the video Vira says it took Nadiya 2-3 weeks], but it took me a long time to type up the texts. She carried shreds of written pages in her ears. There are even traces of medicine [on the pages], because she had an ear infection at the time. The chronology of her book – is war, battle, captivity, kidnapping, prison, and hunger strike, followed by Nadiya’s vision for a modern Ukrainian army; she writes about the peacekeeping mission in Iraq, about the events in Crimea and the early days of the ATO [anti-terrorist operation],” – says Vira Savchenko.

This is a very real, very sincere chronicle, written like an exposed nerve, said the presenters. The book editors tried to preserve Nadiya’s style and emotions. “I decided it was better to write it once, than to repeat it a hundred times. Time to start work.” – Nadiya wrote in her Foreword to the reader.

“Nadiya wrote this book for the sake of truth. This book is worth reading now. No need to exalt Nadiya herself, she asked everyone not to. [The book] describes how they treated her in captivity. When Nadiya was detained, I went to Luhansk, twice. I was also detained. When taking her prisoner, they beat her with the gun stock of the gun. When Savchenko’s case gained worldwide publicity, when she was already in Russia, then they started treating her better” –retold her sister.

Nadiya Savchenko describes that when she had already been on hunger strike for 50 days, the prison guards purposefully roasted potatoes near her cell, so that the smell would carry everywhere, and make her stop her hunger strike. For several days, the Ukrainian pilot tolerated the [guards’] insults thrown at her for speaking Ukrainian, [in the guards’ words] a “dog’s” language.

“While, in the cell, I imagine that I’m not in prison at all, but at home, simply not leaving the apartment… I do things, I read, I write … And then I see the jailers and the prison cells, and immediately remember where I am …” – Nadiya Savchenko writes.

Nadiya Savchenko during a court hearing in Moscow in May 2015

Nadiya Savchenko during a court hearing in Moscow in May 2015

According to her sister, Nadiya did not specify who should receive the first copies of the book, since it’s meant for the readers.

“I want the book to make it to the West, so that everyone in the world knows about the situation in Ukraine. Petro Poroshenko [President of Ukraine] does not have this book, I only gave a copy to Yulia Tymoshenko, as Head of the party faction [i.e.: the Batkivshchyna Party in which Nadiya is an MP] when I was told about [doing] this “– said Vira Savchenko.

Vira last saw her sister in August in Rostov-on-Don [Russia]. Nadiya herself will have to learn from Vira about the presentation of her book in Lviv and readers’ impressions of it. She will only be able to hold the book in her hands when she is released and free.

“I only wrote the truth that I know, the one I saw through the prism of my own eyes, relying on what remains of my own memories. Whatever I did not mention wasn’t worth the attention! Life will go on! Life goes on.”–with these words Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko ends her book.

After Lviv, a presentation of the book will be held in Kyiv.

Source: Radio Svoboda (video in Ukrainian at this link)

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