In These New Times

RIANovosti

25th July, 2014

MOSCOW, July 25 (RIA Novosti) – A system mix up during a Ukrainian air defense units’ rocket launch exercise could be the cause of the Malaysia Airlines crash in southeast Ukraine, a source from one of the Ukrainian defense departments told RIA Novosti.

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RIANovosti

25th July, 2014

MOSCOW, July 25 (RIA Novosti) – The European Union still plans on maintaining full-fledged cooperation with Russia but Moscow and Brussels have currently become hostages to the crisis in Ukraine, EU Ambassador to Russia Vygaudas Ušackas told RIA Novosti on Friday.

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,… leaves settlements near Donetsk

ITAR-TASS

17th July, 2014

DONETSK, July 17 /ITAR-TASS/. Self-defense fighters in the southeast Ukrainian Donetsk and Luhansk regions have forced the Ukrainian military to retreat, the local news agency Novorossiya reported on its website on Thursday.

The Ukrainian troops have left their positions in the settlements of Sabovka, Govorukha, Roskoshnoye and Georgiyevka outside Luhansk and retreated to the west, the news agency said.

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Global Research

Military Briefings from Donbass and Lugansk: Ukraine Regime Forces in Retreat, Experience Substantial Losses

16th July, 2014

#1 – 12:00 – July 16, 2014 – Briefing from the LPR Militia for the First Half of July 16, 2014

he past evening and night in the Lugansk region were relatively calm. Suffering substantial losses, the enemy continued its retreat from Provalye and Marinovka, heading toward Biryukovo, where it was also met by LPR units and sustained losses. Near Lugansk, the aggressor, on the one hand, continued to retreat from its positions near the settlements of Aleksandrovka, Yubileyniy and Ekaterinovka and, on the other hand, started to grow its grouping in the vicinity of Shchastye. In particular, at about 08:00, an enemy column, noted to include 6 Grad installations, passed through the Shchastye checkpoint. At night and in the morning, enemy fighter aircrafts ascended into the sky on several occasions. They flew at a substantial elevation, no less than 6,000 metres. The previous evening a Su-25 ground attack craft conducted an airstrike at the Ukrainian Ministry of Emergency base nominally controlled by Kiev, in the process destroying special equipment necessary in the event if a chemical leak were to affect the territory. At about 11:00, a saboteur group, operating from the territory of the Milam enterprise, conducted mortar strikes, presumably at the location where Battalion Zarya is quartered. However, the shells fell on the territory of a trolley depot.

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European United Left/Nordic Green Left European Parliamentary Group(GUE/NGL)

15th July, 2014

GUE/NGL MEP Jiří Maštálka addressed the European Parliament today on the situation in Ukraine.

The Czech MEP said: “While I think it is positive that we are discussing this topic today, we should have started much earlier, before the association agreement in November 2012. The association agreement is one of the factors that led to this civil war that we have today. The EU should have been more objective.

“100 years on from the start of WW1 we are today facing war on the European continent; we are seeing fascist tendencies and humanitarian disaster. Half a million Ukrainians are displaced.

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