Нещодавно в архіві Української інформаційної служби в Лондоні віднайшлося унікальне фото. На ньому воїни УПА стоять із зброєю в руках на молитві, а перед ними — пасхальний стіл, накритий посеред лісу. Навіть в умовах підпілля, у криївках вони відзначали величне свято Великодня, випікали паски, вітали одне одного пасхальними листівками. ХРИСТОС ВОСКРЕС! СЛАВА УКРАЇНЦЯМ!

Recently archive Ukrainian Information Service in London vidnayshlosya unique photos. It UPA standing with arms in their hands in prayer, and in front of them – Easter table laid in the forest. Even in the underground, in secret places they celebrated a grand feast of Passover, baked cakes, greeted each other Easter cards. Christ is Risen! UKRAINIAN GLORY!

sometime around 3 a.m. Kiev time, bursts of gunfire rang out at a rural roadblock near Sloviansk in Ukraine’s industrial eastern heartland – where pro-Russian separatists have seized government buildings, taken up arms and demanded referendums on seceding from Ukraine. At least three people were killed and several others injured.

The deadly incident – whether staged or a sham – shattered a holiday armistice agreed upon by authorities in Kiev and Moscow on Saturday and threatened to undermine a deal hashed out in Geneva several days ago to defuse the ongoing crisis here.

It also has Russian and Ukrainian authorities exchanging accusations with one another.

http://mashable.com/2014/04/20/ukraine-gun-battle/

@Ukroblogger

Self-proclaimed #Sloviansk mayor calls on #Putin to invade #Ukraine after an apparent false-flag attack/shootout

The death toll and the allegiance of those involved were hard to confirm independently. Armed militias manning checkpoints and flying the Russian flag outside Slavyansk were reluctant to allow the Guardian to investigate on Sunday. At the bridge into the town, one commander armed with a pistol told the Guardian to leave. He punched the car with his fist, leaving a dent. “Get out of here,” he screamed. . . .

About 10 miles north of the town, locals were visiting Svyatogorsk monastery, built around a a steep hill and a series of caves, and overlooking the picturesque Seversky Donets river. In previous years tens of thousands of people flocked to the site. On Sunday, however, there was only a trickle of families, carrying brown wicker baskets filled with Easter eggs and cake.

“People are scared. They don’t want to come out,” Viktor Oneskehnko, a 53-year-old doctor and Chernobyl survivor said, walking with his wife and daughter towards the monastery’s white and turquoise 19th-century church. Oneshenko said he supported Ukraine’s territorial integrity. He was contemptuous of the separatists who he said had hijacked Slavyansk. “They’re opportunists and mafia”, he said.

“The separatists are actually not that numerous. Most people around here support Ukraine,” he added. “Russian TV has zombified some. And young guys often support maximalist positions.” Oneshenko said he was against the “Donetsk People’s Republic”, a self-elected pro-Moscow group which is demanding a referendum on the region’s status before 11 May.

“We don’t want it. It means marauding. It means stopping people in the street. It means being afraid. We want peace,” he said. He conceded that some older people were keen on the idea of union with Russia because they thought they would get bigger pensions. “I’ve travelled all over Russia. I’ve seen how people live there. They [pro-Russian pensioners in the east] are deluding themselves.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/20/ukraine-agreement-falters-shoot-out-slavayansk?CMP=twt_gu

@elocio

No attack in #Slovyansk #Slavyansk It was murder Victim: Pavlo Pavelko from Oleksandrivka http://t.co/z9UbSuizjF #Ukraine #Euromaidan #tcot

The Russian story about the shootout at Sloviansk

More amazing: even under fire from behind and the side the attackers managed to load their injured into the remaining two cars and drive off… while the Sloviansk men managed to get backpacks, guns, uniforms, a World War II era German machine gun, brand new dollar bills, etc. out of the burning cars… with nothing of that stuff being scorched… and, wondrously, neither are the two license plates of the burning cars scorched.

Need more hints that this is a staged fakery by idiots? In Sloviansk they display a body who supposedly had a Right Sector business card and a Right Sector medallion with him, but no ID documents whatsoever, and on the business card the Russian transliteration for Right Sector is used, because now we all die-hard Ukrainian nationalists are in love with Russian and don’t use Ukrainian at all.

To sum it all up: I expected the GRU/FSB to work more professionally when setting up faked accidents as pretense for Putin’s war.

http://euromaidanpr.com/2014/04/20/the-russian-story-about-the-shootout-at-sloviansk-see-if-you-can-spot-the-ludicrous-parts/

The business card of Right Sector leader Yarosh supposedly found at the shooting quickly became an internet meme:

Hard to tell what’s happening here.

@MaximEristavi

Kidnapped in #Slovyansk Irma Krat is controversial figure in Kyiv, all #Euromaidan activists I spoke to refuse to associate with her

Russia is a failed, fractured union of many ethnic groups. Ukraine is the culture they strive to be. They cannot countenance a united, self-conscious Ukrainian people.

A lot has changed in the last month which probably influenced people’s perceptions. Nevertheless, data on important questions is always fascination.

the report: http://www.iri.org/sites/default/files/2014%20April%205%20IRI%20Public%20Opinion%20Survey%20of%20Ukraine,%20March%2014-26,%202014.pdf

Some highlights:

Join the EU?
53% for, 28% against
east – 22% for, 55% against

Russian Speakers under pressure?
85% no, 12% yes
east – 74% no, 17% yes

Support Russian sending Army to protect Russian-Speakers?
81% no, 13% yes
east – 61% no, 24% yes
ethnic Russian – 43% no, 43% yes
(Surprising!)

Join NATO?
34% for, 44% against
east – 14% for, 67% against

Crimea should be
71% – autonomous republic or oblast within Ukraine
8% – part of Russia

There’s only a few seconds of footage in this BBC report:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27083395

I think it’s either
– a false flag to discredit the separatists (as if their violence isn’t enough).
or
– some dumb kids.

Here’s a report of the leaflet being fake: http://www.dailydot.com/politics/ukraine-jewish-registry-fake/

Ostap Drozdov is the host who interviewed me during priami tekst.

This article attracted the wrath of Ukraine’s intellectuals:

Original
Translation

Basic points:
– Western (Galician) Ukraine won the revolution. Central Ukraine helped.
– Western Ukraine wants closer ties with Europe and is growing impatient with the rest of the country and its Soviet mindset.

Sevastopol, unknown date, 2011 or 2014

Nazi salute in pro-Russian meeting in Donbass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD8goJMLUhs

Dugin talks to E. Gubareva, separatist leader (in Sevastopol)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eUX5MNZk-E

Pavel Gubarev and RNE (more, also Mika Ronkainen)

Pavel Gubarev in Donbas

Russian neo-nazi Anton Raevski identified in Odessa

Nazi identified amongst "anti-fascists" during Crimea referendum

Maria Koleda (see Ukraine captures Russian social worker / accused Moscow spy)

Observers of Crimean referendum

This guy.

http://kirovgrad.pp.ua/uploads/posts/2014-09/1409938882_d2c9a772f6c8ed932336475d21232074.jpg

http://khpg.org/index.php?id=1420855493

And outside Ukraine:
#Russia|n fsb & Neo-nazi Yulia Kharlamova is a new face in the Kremlin’s propaganda apparatus:

Russian neo-Nazi, sadist, mercenary interviewed on Russian television:

"@jaroshcard: “Russian channel @Lifenews_ru broadcasting Putins supporters – russian neo-Nazi, murderer and sadist" pic.twitter.com/kFRtXUh1vN

— Banderovka (@Banderovka) March 4, 2015

Gennadiy Dobovoy and others

Nazi tattooed Russian mercenary captured in Shyrokeny, June 2015:

See the tattoo @3:23

She’s a doctor. Isn’t that lovely?

See her get her shots in from about 1:00 – 1:45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgtaZoUnbmY

Eye witness account of the attacks by Sergei Mel’nik:

At that moment people on the stage began squabbling. One guy, probably a leader of the self–defense group (pro-Maidan) said we should go home because the situation had become dangerous. Others insisted we should stay. Most decided to stay; it seemed the right thing to do. Why would we be afraid to stay at a peaceful concert?

Probably most of the pro-Maidan people moved forward (thank God!); several dozens of us stayed behind, cut off by rows of militiamen and anti-Maidanists. At this point the situation worsened; we were surrounded by a huge crowd of aggressive anti-Maidanists and could not make a move.

There were militiamen but not enough to protect us. We could not go anywhere; we had anti-Maidanists on every side, and they would not let us go. The crowd surrounding us was shouting: “We will kill you, m-f-ers.” (I will not quote the other insults here.) They threw themselves on the militiamen, hoping to break through the cordon. At several points they succeeded and began beating us. We could not struggle against such a crowd; all we could do was protect our heads, try not to fall down, and, most important, prevent them from taking me or my comrades into their crowd (from which no one would have escaped alive). Anti-Maidanists dragged me by my hair; during those seconds I said to myself, “you should have cut your hair, idiot.” They kicked heads with their feet. Sometimes I managed to stay standing; sometimes they knocked me down to the road. I protected my head with my hands, fending off the blows somewhat.

At moments the militia cordon stood steady, without gaps in the cordon. But then the anti-Maidanist began spitting on us and throwing stones, some of which reached us. (Fortunately, in this area of Kharkiv, they could not find many stones.) They also threw explosives and petards in our direction. All this was accompanied by their screaming, “Russia, Russia!” Now we could understand the real meaning of a “Russian-style Kharkov.” I wish people in Russia could understand this too.

In the meantime militiamen tried hard to contain the crowd and slowly move us to their van [avtozak-transportation van for prisoners]. Unfortunately, they had not nearly enough personnel. . . .

Militiamen opened the door of the van and demanded we get out. Those who left the van were ordered to kneel and move ahead on their knees. We all asked ourselves whether or not to follow the order. If you think it is an easy choice, it’s not. The crowd wanted our blood or at least to see us humiliated. As a result, everybody, myself included, moved ahead on our knees or squatting; only one guy tried to walk. My thoughts were as follows: I am standing on the railroad tracks with an unguided train approaching me at high speed. It would be viewed as shameful to jump away, but I would do so. I felt in a similar situation. You could stand, but this crazy crowd would break through the thin layer of militiamen and crush us all. Thus, moving ahead on my knees, I did not feel ashamed; I was simply annoyed by this “unguided train” in our city. The guy who tried to walk probably increased the aggressiveness of the crowd by a third. But that was the choice he made.

We had been moving in that physically grueling mode for about thirty minutes. One of us had a concussion; he received his share of kicks, as did we all. Again, there were not enough militiamen, though they contained the elements the best they could. They also yelled “kneel, idiot!” probably following my course of thought. The best decision would have been to arrest the mob, because they clearly were the instigators. But in such small numbers they COULD NOT.

At that point I was not paying much attention to anti-Maidanist words. But when somebody yelled at me “Go to your L’vov, Zhidomason [kike and mason]!” I felt I had to answer that I was from Kharkov.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2014/04/10/eyewitness-to-the-kharkiv-beaten-by-putins-thugs/

http://www.news-republic.com/Web/ArticleWeb.aspx?regionid=4&articleid=21798151

http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/canada-usa-ukraine-cultural-property-russia-terrorism-provocation/

Josef Shiling was well-known in the Drogobych Jewish community of Lviv oblast (region). He was 61. He and his wife Anna raised two daughters, and he has four granddaughters. He was a construction worker who had worked in Italy in recent years; Anna also worked in Italy. . . .

Alexander Scherbanyuk was buried in his home city of Chernivtsi; he was dressed in a vyshyvanka – a shirt embroidered with classic Ukrainian patterns. He was buried with a gas mask, a hardhat, and a kippah. He had been a member of the “Beit Simcha” community. Orthodox priests of several denominations who had not known about his faith offered to hold an Orthodox ceremony for him, but he was buried with a rabbi’s prayer. . . .

Evgeniy Kotlyar, a resident of Kharkiv, was 33. He was well-known among left-wing activists and ecologists who fought against the criminal city authorities and their destruction of parks. He worked in industrial alpinism.

A sniper killed him on Institutskaya.

http://eajc.org/page34/news43797.html

Note.

This Kyiv Post article suggests it is just one person:

One of the civilian victims of the Maidan, a member of the now venerated “Heavenly Hundred,” the 100 or so protestors shot to death by Yanukovych’s special police units, was a Jewish-Ukrainian from Chernivtsi named Oleksandr Shcherbaniuk.

https://www.kyivpost.com/article/opinion/op-ed/bohdan-vitvitsky-ukraine-drive-analysts.html

Hello. My name is Ihor Hryhola. I am a priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate. I would like to address those citizens of the so-called “Russian World” who are eager to save Ukraine from Banderites and other “bad guys.”

Friends, Orthodox Christians, brothers and sisters! All of you who made the decision to “save” Ukraine, please, go to hell! What you are doing is horrible, it is dreadful. The degree of your downfall is terrifying. Do you understand? What the government of the Russian Federation is doing, and what, obviously, is being approved by the Hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church – that’s a military aggression and the imperial ambitions, which, unfortunately, an overwhelming majority of the Russian people supports.

Friends, what happened to you? Where was the Church all these years? What kind of people your Church raised? I am stunned, my friends. I am stunned. The thing is, no one in Ukraine needs your “salvation.” As many others said it thousands of times: we can sort things out without you. There are less “Fascists” in all Ukraine than in Moscow alone.

When you are watching your TV news, please understand that it must be received critically, dissociating the visual images from the newsmen’s comments. Please do that when you watch Russian news programs, or any news programs for that matter. Because what you see is something that you can, and should, check out and verify. But what they say… it is very different. They make you to believe them uncritically. They tell lies. Russian TV news is a frightful thing. Friends, don’t even turn them on. Well, I know, you will not listen to me. And it is up to you.

Still, I want to repeat, again and again: please, do not try to “save” Ukraine from whatever. Better try to save your own country. Just look at yourself.

http://euromaidanpr.com/2014/04/17/ukrainian-orthodox-priest-of-moscow-patriarchate-addresses-orthodox-brothers-in-russia/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/putin-changes-course-admits-russian-troops-were-in-crimea-before-vote/2014/04/17/b3300a54-c617-11e3-bf7a-be01a9b69cf1_story.html