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The Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel and the President of France Francois Hollande have called the possible elections in Donetsk and Lugansk a threat to the Minsk process during their phone talk with the Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the official representative of Cabinet of Germany.
The process of withdrawal of weaponry of under 100mm caliber has no chance of success, according to DPR head Aleksandr Zakharchenko.
“There is no progress. Unfortunately, the enemy does not withdraw weaponry of under 100mm caliber. Of course, we have to do everything alone.”
The Ukrainian Institute of World Politics (a pro-western organization) has conducted a social research. Citizens of the country were offered to choose out of a dozen answers to the question “What is their country associated with first and foremost?” The results speak for themselves. “Corrupted, ineffective authorities” won the first place. The second place went to “war, conflict, ruination, disaster”. The third place went to a neutral “homeland” answer. Almost as much responses percentage-wise has earned the fourth answer: “poverty, unemployment”. All answers with a positive connotation – from “independence and love of freedom” to “European state” – were much lower.
DPR Deputy Defense Minister: “A column of up to 30 units tanks and self-propelled artillery guns are spotted arriving to Vershina village area, nine kilometers away from the contact line. Artillery firing positions have been confirmed in Pervomaysky township, six kilometers away from the contact line.”
The Ukrainian border guard sergeant Sergey Sergeyev who had moved to LPR yesterday has declared that the Kiev’s secret services are putting pressure on his relatives. The former border guard has asked the international organizations to help his family in Western Ukraine.
DPR Defense Ministry: “The Ukrainian military has fired 109 82mm and 120mm mortar shells, 32 artillery shells and 29 tank shells at the peaceful regions of the republic. The punitive forces have violated the ceasefire a total of 39 times in the past 24 hours.”
DPR Defense Ministry: “The Ukrainian military has fired 109 82mm and 120mm mortar shells, 32 artillery shells and 29 tank shells at the peaceful regions of the republic. The punitive forces have violated the ceasefire a total of 39 times in the past 24 hours.”
Donetsk People’s Republic President Aleksandr Zakharchenko: “A peaceful scenario is preferred, a political scenario of conflict resolution. But if the citizens of Donetsk People’s Republic will have to defend their lives against the punitive forces, we will defend it. If we will have to return the withdrawn military hardware back to the contact line – we will. We didn’t start this war, but we are capable of ending it.”
“I’d say that local elections in DPR present a threat to the illegitimate rule of Poroshenko and his accomplices, just like the Minsk process itself,” Aleksandr Zakharchenko has stated.
According to him, the only way Kiev can try to sabotage the elections in Donbass is by using military force. He added, that this attempt is nevertheless doomed to failure.
Junta’s border guard sergeant Sergey Sergeev, who had voluntarily sided with LPR, has told that people from Donbass who serve in junta’s army and other defense and law enforcement agencies are treated with bias. Specifically, they are being accused of “separatism.” The civilian population is also treated negatively and violently.
“Same with the civilians. Take the region where I used to serve, Stanichno-Lugansky – physical force is being used there as well. And if something goes wrong, anybody can disappear.”