(1) BREAKING DEVELOPMENTS today:
In Luhansk [Lugansk], Russians are storming a border guard base with grenade launchers and sniper fire. Tymchuk says that there are 500 Russian soldiers involved.
Russian media is laughably saying it is “self-defense versus Right Sector”
Here is some video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOeGhx1Mt-w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOb1Yz-CEu8
Authorities denied carrying out a strike and said the blast was caused by misdirected rebel fire from a portable surface-to-air missile launcher.
Look at the departure of the RPG round in the circle before the explosion a fraction of a second later. [see attachment] http://www.hromadske.tv/societ…luganskii-oda-video/
Ukrainian military aviation blows up bridge in Luhansk region
FB: Russian fascist terrorists attacking the border guards units since sunrise this morning had taken position mainly in residential areas.
only mortars that have to be located away from targets they shoot at could be taken out by pinpoint airstrikes.
Russia: Luhansk events prove that Kyiv doesn’t want to seek ways of restoring national accord
Moscow – The deadly air strike on the Luhansk regional state administration building, in which civilians were killed, is a flagrant violation of the Geneva agreements and of the roadmap, proposed by Switzerland as the country holding the rotating presidency of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement posted on its Web site.
HOWEVER:
Terrorists damage Regional Administration Building in Luhansk today, resulting in the deaths of civlian passers by. http://ukraineinvestigation.com/terrorists-damage-regional-state-administration-luhansk-rpg/
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A FB comment:500 Russians attacked a border guard position at 04.30. Chechnyans, Ossentians and Russians now make up the bulk of the separatists. Reports from Chechnya claim that men are being forced to go to fight in Ukraine.
Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov issued a statement today, saying that he had not ordered Chechens [who are fighting for the proo-Russians] to take part in the fighting in Ukraine – but in the event he does sent troops, he has
“74,000 Chechens who are willing to go to bring order to the territory of Ukraine,” and that he would not sent them to Donetsk, but to Kyiv.
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The Opinion-Makers: How Russia Is Winning the Propaganda War
By SPIEGEL Staff
Russia’s Greatest Propaganda Success
The purpose of this global battle to shape opinion isn’t merely to transform Europeans and Americans into fans of Vladimir Putin. The Russian president is also targeting his own people, seeking to make himself unassailable within Russia.
Putin’s greatest propaganda success is the fact that the majority of Russians now believe that Kiev is ruled by fascists. Evoking World War II in this way has proven very effective with Russians. One member of Russia’s parliament, the Duma, even went so far as to call the fire in Odessa that killed 30 pro-Russia activists a “new Auschwitz.” Meanwhile, the head of parliament spoke of genocide in Ukraine. With the spin machine at full steam, it is perhaps of little surprise that a radio poll recently found that 89 percent of listeners agreed with the idea that the “participants of the mass murder in Odessa should be found and executed without trial.”
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Most broadcasters and newspapers are already under the Kremlin’s control. Some 94 percent of Russians obtain their information primarily from state television. The problem is that state TV has no qualms about blatantly fabricating the news. Two weeks ago, for example, the evening news showed video allegedly depicting the murder of a pro-Russian fighter in eastern Ukraine by nationalists. In fact, the video used was actually one and a half years old and showed fighters in the north Caucasus.
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The 67-year-old research pulls out one poll after another from a stack of papers. They show that when the mass protests against President Viktor Yanukovych broke out, only 30 percent of Russians believed that Ukraine’s Association Agreement with the EU was a “betrayal of Slavic unity.” In February, at the peak of the Maidan protests, 73 percent still considered the issue to be an internal one for Ukrainians. In the time that has transpired since, some 58 percent of Russians now support the annexation of eastern Ukraine by Russia.
“The successful propaganda campaign we are witnessing here surrounding the Ukraine crisis is unique and highly sophisticated, even compared to Soviet standards,” says Gudkov. “The Kremlin has succeeded in stirring up sentiments deeply rooted in the Russian psyche: the yearning for an imperial grandness, a sense of anti-Americanism and pride over Russia’s victory over Hitler’s Germany.”
Ultimately, it was the annexation of Crimea that silenced Putin’s critics. Prior to the development, dissatisfaction with Putin had been growing continuously. Polls showed an increasing number of Russians wanted to vote the president out of office. In November 2013, 53 percent said they would vote for a different candidate during the next election. But Putin experienced a meteoric rise in popularity after the annexation, with 86 percent of Russians now saying they would re-elect him.
By Moritz Gathmann, Christian Neef, Matthias Schepp and Holger Stark
Euromaidanpr shared a link via Ukrainian Policy.
Nearly 60% think Russia should arm (“actively support”) terrorists in south-east Ukraine, and an equal number support the armed seizure of government buildings. 61% support the use of Russian mercenaries / ‘volunteers’ in the insurgency.
Similarly, 58% believe Russia has a ‘right’ to “take over the territory of former Soviet republics” based on ethnic grounds.
Nearly 80% believe Russia should annex Ukrainian regions based on local referendums, and 72% think Russia should recognize the independence of the Donetsk People’s Republic.
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The suspension of the hryvnia is landing blows to the nerves and pockets of Crimeans
Kerch – In annexed Kerch, shopkeepers and customers are having difficulties with the suspension of the hryvnia. They cannot give Ukrainian coins as change in shops and supermarkets any longer, and there is still no supply of Russian change on the peninsula.
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http://euromaidanpr.com/2014/06/02/russia-promoting-terrorism-in-ukraine-says-ukraines-mfa/#more-10844
Western media are silent.
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Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of investigative reports based on documents recovered from deposed President Viktor Yanukovych’s Mezhyhirya estate after the Ukrainian leader abandoned the presidency on Feb. 21-22 and fled to Russia, where he is living in exile. The documents and stories are published by YanukovychLeaks.org website.
This was the case when money came and went easily.
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High school graduates in Sevastopol celebrate last bell wearing embroidered shirts
While it is not much of a deal to wear vyshyvanka (Ukrainian traditional embroidered shirt) for the eponymous parade in Kyiv, real heroism is needed to wear national clothes in Ukraine’s peninsula Crimea occupied by Russia since March 16.
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US Department of State denies funding Kyiv Maidan supporters
Washington – The U.S. authorities have allocated $5 billion since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 to support democracy in Ukraine, U.S. Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland has said.
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