“Essence of Time” unit in Donbass: Visiting Vsevolod Grigorievich and Vera Evseevna

We once again visited veterans Vsevolod Grigorievich and his wife Vera Evseevna and brought medicine, which was paid for by donations from our contributors. We were treated to a delicious okroshka (could soup – Editor), the spouses are very hospitable. Vera Evseevna recently fell and hurt her back, she does not often get out of the bed. Vsevolod Grigorievich has just completed an article for a local newspaper, which he had read to us. In the article, he has laid down his views about patriotic education of the Donetsk People’s Republic’s youth, and his impressions of the recent meeting with schoolchildren.

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Retaliation for the 9th of May: Immortal Regiment organizer arrested in Ukrainian town

According to his report, “Yesterday, Ivan Nikolaevich Bondarchuk was arrested; he is my Deputy and the leader of the Vinnitsa regional unit of the Union of Left-Wing Forces, member of the Political Council. Ivan Nikolaevich, who is 73-years old, was arrested “for betrayal of the Motherland”, and he faces imprisonment for up to 15 years.”

The ULF leader expressed discontent with this charge; he said, “Ivan Nikolaevich is one of the most honest and decent people I have met in my life. He is absolutely in love with Ukraine, and especially with his Vinnitsa land.”

The party leader noted that officially the arrest was made on charges of the preparation of an action against President Pyotr Poroshenko. However, Volga expressed confidence that the real reason of the arrest was the organization of the Immortal Regiment march in Vinnitsa this year. “What was that in fact? Retaliation for the 9th of May. Today, they will retaliate against all those who organized the Immortal Regiment, all those who marched on the 9th of May with portraits of their liberator ancestors. Back then, on May 9, they simply could not make a slaughter. They wanted to very much, but they could not do it because the Eurovision was held. It would have been inappropriate. But now it’s alright. Now they can do anything,” he said.

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Kurginyan: Ukraine's degradation resembles radioactive decay

The Ukrainian people are being given nothing but hatred; they are not being offered a Ukrainian national idea, or a Ukrainian identity, and hatred in and of itself is very destructive, says Sergey Kurginyan.

“…But here (in Ukraine – editor) everything stops at simple hatred.” pointed the political scientist. “One must then feed everyone with it. However, one cannot satiate Ukraine’s radicals with hatred, because they are like crocodiles: they always want more. This means hate will continue to grow”. “Hate makes life simpler. A person, whose life is based on hatred, becomes simpler himself. But when he becomes simple, he cannot manage a complicated system such as nation-state.”

In Ukraine, they are trying to buy stability through self-destruction, Kurginyan added, and this process strongly resembles radioactive decay.

Sergey Kurginyan also noted, that laws passed in Ukraine contradict obvious facts.

“See, you cannot live in defiance of reality. When we demonstrate the facts, you retreat to speculations. Respond to the facts first”, he demanded.

Since the coup d’etat of December 2013 – February 2014, the main force behind the Maidan was the right-wing nationalist Right Sector organization (organization banned in Russia – Editor), which promoted an anti-Russian, hate-based agenda.

The popular Maidan slogan “Glory to Ukraine! Glory to Heroes!” represents a local copy of the Nazi “Heil Hitler! Sieg Heil!” greeting, adopted from German Nazis by their Ukrainian admirers: the Bandera Nazis from the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (organization banned in Russia) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (organization banned in Russia).

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DPR: Ukrainian drones became highly active on the Donetsk and south directions

On the Gorlovka direction, the Ukrainian army opened fire on the western outskirts of the city and on the village of Zaytsevo.

On the Donetsk direction, Yasinovataya, the villages of Spartak, Trudovskiye, the area of the former Donetsk airport, the northern outskirts of the Kievsky district in Donetsk came under the Ukrainian army’s shelling. The Ukrainian army has been provoking trench combat in the area of the “Yasinovataya” checkpoint. The Kiev junta’s military opened fire with heavy artillery, mortars of various calibers, grenade launchers, heavy machine guns. The Ukrainian recon drones were active. The Ukrainian snipers became highly active in the area of Mariinka.

On the Mariupol direction, the Ukrainian military shelled the villages of Kominternovo and Sakhanka. The Ukrainian recon drones were active.

4 houses were damaged in the Chervonogvardeysky district of Makeevka as a result of the yesterday shelling.

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