Here’s the Summary for June 11, 2014
The bad news:
1. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced that
Russia is providing humanitarian assistance to Donbas through the
“militias because of Kyiv’s refusal to work together on this issue.”
Sure, after the events in eastern Ukraine wind down, our country must
take on support for and humanitarian assistance to the national
militias of the Caucasus, who have long been leading the deadly battle
against Putin’s genocide.
Although it’s impossible to compare Donbas and the Caucasus. Donbas
terrorists are criminals and Russian mercenaries. Whereas in the
Caucasus, a struggle for liberation and an opposition to Moscow’s
genocide is under way.
Also, it’s abundantly clear that it’s possible to divert Putin’s
attention from aggression against Ukraine only by diverting his
attention to the hot spots in Russia itself. It sounds cynical but this
is the instinct of Ukrainian self-preservation.
2. The leader of the terrorist organization “DPR” [Donetsk
People’s Republic] Denis Pushilin freely crossed the Russian border.
Another runaway rogue, Oleg Tsaryov, suddenly surfaced in Luhansk.
Whoever is not lazy can drag themselves across the border.
Our guards explain: but the closed checkpoints were captured by terrorists!
This, we somehow guessed without the State Border Control Service.
The question is why, when the checkpoints were captured back
God-knows-when, Ukrainian law enforcement didn’t care one bit about it.
3. The situation with the ‘provision of status of combat
participant (CP)’ to the guys who are now fighting terrorists as part of
the ATO forces, smacks of some phantasmagoria.
The situation is more or less clear with the National Guard. Here’s
how the picture comes together. The National Guard command quickly
reported that it created the First Battalion from volunteers. However, de jure
[legally] it doesn’t exist–the servicemen in the Battalion are
officially registered in positions at completely different units, which
don’t participate in the ATO. Accordingly, they won’t be awarded the CP
status.
This is one of the wildest instances of bureaucratic marasmus in
this undeclared war. There is only one solution–to urgently register
these battalions (it’s well known that there are two more National Guard
battalions “on the way”) as full-fledged combat personnel units. Why
this isn’t being done is totally unclear.
The CP status of the military units of the Armed Forces that
participate in the ATO is more complicated. The Defense Ministry
representatives give us the most conflicting information. I promise that
as soon as we clarify this issue, we will immediately report on it.
However, the Defense Minister claims that the CP IDs will be handed
out after the ATO, but here it is impossible to agree with him. The
issues with the [CP] status must be addressed now–later, to prove
anything to bureaucrats will be useless.
In any case, it wouldn’t hurt some military officials to spend a week
or two at a checkpoint near Sloviansk. You’d see, [their] brains would
work faster when they need to solve such problems [urgently].
The good news:
1. Petro Poroshenko doesn’t exclude the possibility of
conducting a round table in Donetsk “with the participation of those
parties to the conflict that support a peaceful plan for its
resolution.”
A peace plan, as I said earlier, is always positive.
I honestly can’t understand what the round table can discuss with
murderers and rapists. After all, the proclaimed format obviously
doesn’t exclude the participation of terrorists–who suddenly decided to
support peaceful dialogue. I would hope that Poroshenko has his own
higher considerations, beyond my understanding, in mind. Because, for
now, all this still doesn’t look all that clear.
2. The Ministry of Defense promises complete filtration of everyone leaving the ATO zone.
Quite a timely move. As soon as Poroshenko announced the creation of
corridors for refugees, the question of filtering arose immediately. We
don’t need the terrorists to spread out across the country under the
guise of being refugees from Donbas.
However, we are very hopeful that said filtering is not organized
akin to border control or [troop] mobilization, i.e. not through one
unmentionable place.
3. The Governor of Luhansk Oblast [region] Iryna Verygina
announced that the Party of Regions [PR] faction Leader Oleksandr
Yefremov and other PR members, as well as members of the Communist
Party, supported terrorism.
It would seem only the laziest haven’t yet talked about this. One
wants to hope that at least this statement by the Governor of the
Luhansk Oblast, about Luhansk”native” Yefremov, would make both the
Verkhovna Rada [Ukrainian Parliament], and law enforcement act. It’s
impossible to fight terrorism in the country when the main organizers
and sponsors of terrorism sit in Parliament.
