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Great move. I guess that Russian also counted on lose of some truck as a "pass by tickets" for Ukraine soldiers.
angelburst29 said:These folks really need the supplies coming from Russian humanitarian aid Convoy!
Death toll in Ukraine conflict doubles in 2 weeks, reaches 2,086 – UN
_http://rt.com/news/180020-ukraine-death-toll-un/
Wednesday August 13, 2014
The number of killed and wounded in eastern Ukraine has doubled to 2,086 over the last two weeks, according to the UN’s “very conservative estimates”.
“This corresponds to a clear escalating trend,” UN human rights spokeswoman Cecile Pouilly told Reuters in response to a query.
Over 60 people have been killed or wounded every day, Pouilly added.
Almost 5,000 have been wounded.
The figures comprise Ukrainian military, self-defense forces, and civilians. However, those are “very conservative estimates,” Pouilly said.
The Ukraine crisis has been widely described as a humanitarian catastrophe. According to the UN’s latest estimates, over 110,000 people have been internally displaced in the conflict. Moscow has reported that 730,000 people have fled across the border into Russia.
In Donetsk alone, more than 1,000 people have been left homeless due to the fighting, according to the city administration. In Lugansk, another regional center, 250,000 people can’t leave the city and have been without water, electricity, and communications for over a week.
The Russian humanitarian aid is set to arrive to the Russian-Ukrainian border by the end of Wednesday. However, the Ukrainian authorities repeatedly stated that they won’t allow the aid to pass – despite the Red Cross and the OSCE observers watching over the mission.
_http://rt.com/news/180568-harf-ukraine-briefing-military/ said:
US calls for restraint in Ukrainian army’s actions after deadly Donetsk shelling
The deputy spokesperson for the US Department of State Marie Harf has called restraint on the Ukrainian military’s actions in the east for the first time, following a major shelling of Donetsk that left at least 70 civilians dead.
1. Strelkov is alive.
2. He was removed purely due to political considerations. Talk about adequate replacement, future offensive, is in essence the media camouflage for political processes that happen in parallel with the unfolding military action. I understand that the people have to be convinced that everything is OK and the firm command over the war is carried out (and it is carried out in principle fine), but regarding the situation with rebooting the military and political leadership of the DPR and the LPR it would be clearly false, because if there were military reasons, then they were strictly secondary.Actually, if Strelkov was connected with the Moscow oligarchic groups and bound to the current curator of the Ukrainian question, then he would perfectly well continue running things in Donbass. But his gateways into Moscow were located in other places and so he was shut down together with the gateways. So that it is clear, even before Strelkov's resignation on the border there was an order in the spirit of "don't send cargo to Strelkov".
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5. Judging from the content of the media field, currently there is an informational preparation for the idea of some kind of negotiations about the future of the DPR and the LPR. Those who impeded this were removed or are being removed from the political ground. The change in rhetoric of the USA and their satellites, the dances around the humanitarian cargo, the change of the official line of the Russian Federation, all of this points at the preparation to inject some political proposals in the nearest time, perhaps already negotiated proposals.
6. Makhovism was flourishing and continues to flourish, at least 2 groups – Khodakovsky and Kozitsyn at this time effectively don't report directly to neither the command structures in the DPR and the LPR nor to the coordination staff in Krasnodon. At the same time regarding the first some affairs _https://vk.com/feed?w=wall206013411_51419 (in Russian) floated with the US embassy in Moscow, in particular it is suggested that the public refusal to subordinate to the DPR structures was sounded in an agreement with the US embassy.
Effectively, Moscow cannot boast full control over the events in Donbass, but there is ongoing work in this direction. The increase of controllability is viewed as a perspective of the beneficial negotiation with the West.
_http://cassad-eng.livejournal.com/59452.html said:"Kids" holiday on the territory of Ivano-Frankovsk with ritual burning of Putin's dummy.
The event was conducted in the interest of collecting money for the punitive operation in Donbass