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'White
phosphorus' reports: Ukraine military 'dropped incendiary bombs' on
Slavyansk
Residents of Slavyansk and its suburbs were awoken overnight on Thursday by what they say were incendiary bombs that were dropped on their city by Kiev’s military. Witnesses and local media reports suggested that the bombs might be phosphorous.
RT,
12
June, 2014
Much
of the village of Semyonovka, located in the Slavyansk suburbs, was
set ablaze. Local residents told RT that the ground didn't stop
burning for some time.
“We
all saw what happened here yesterday. They used rocket launchers as
well as incendiary bombs against us. The ground was on fire. How can
the ground burn by itself. It burned for about forty
minutes,”resident
Roman Litvinov told RT over the phone.
“Starting
from 2 a.m. everyone I’ve met has a sore throat and is coughing all
the time. I think this is because of the burning. I think we’ll
feel the true consequences later. There are still a lot of people
here, a lot of children we haven’t managed to get out
yet,” resident
Tatyana told RT.
The
use of incendiary bombs – designed to start fires using materials
such as napalm, white phosphorus or other dangerous chemicals – is
strictly prohibited by the UN.
Kiev
authorities have denied reports that such weapons were used against
civilians. The National Guard also refuted reports that phosphorous
ammunition was used, its press service stated.
Slavyansk,
an industrial city in southeastern Ukraine with a population of over
100,000 people, has been a focal point of the government’s
crackdown against the region. The city’s residential area has been
under regular artillery fire for weeks.
“It
does appear that there is at least a case to be argued that something
similar, if not itself white phosphorous, was used overnight. I’ve
seen the video, I’ve looked at it closely...[there are] whole
signs, whole marks of white phosphorous use. For example, a very
bright light burning and multiple burns coming down from the sky.
It’s an airburst weapon that has been used, such as a mortar or a
manned aircraft,” Charles
Shoebridge, a former army officer, Scotland Yard detective, and
counter-terrorism intelligence officer who has recently returned from
Ukraine, told RT.
“White
phosphorous cannot be put out with the use of water” and it will
“burn through one’s body to the bone,” Shoebridge
added. “If
there is going to be large amounts used it can also be a poison –
large amounts can be set to contaminate water supply.”
According
to the video, “it’s
very likely that white phosphorus" was
used, Shoebridge added. “It’s
very difficult to fabricate the video we saw combined with the
evidence on the ground.”
Moscow
demanded an immediate investigation into the reported use of
incendiary bombs in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
said on Thursday.
"We
are concerned to hear reports that the Ukrainian military forces use
incendiary bombs and some other indiscriminate weapons," he
said. "These
reports should be probed into immediately."
On
Thursday, Russia introduced a draft resolution to the UN Security
Council that condemns attacks on residential quarters and civilian
facilities in southeastern Ukraine, said Vitaly Churkin, Russian
envoy to the UN.
He
also voiced concern over reports of the use of prohibited ammunition,
including incendiary bombs, during the military crackdown.
The
draft resolution calls for an immediate end to all violence and for a
lasting ceasefire.
"The
draft resolution will aim to stop the violence and support the
political efforts the OSCE has been undertaking in vain so far. We
urge the UN Secretary-General to support them," Churkin
said, adding that its adoption would demonstrate the UNSC’s support
for the crisis settlement efforts.
If
so it's about bloody time
Ukraine
accuses Russia of letting rebels bring in tanks
Ukraine
accused Russia on Thursday of allowing separatist rebels to bring
three tanks and other military vehicles across the border into the
east of the country to fight the Ukrainian army.
12
June, 2014
Evidence
that Russia is sending in weapons or assisting the rebels militarily
would implicate Moscow in the uprising against Kiev's pro-Western
leaders, making a mockery of its denials that it has played a role in
weeks of fighting.
Interior
Minister Arseny Avakov stopped short of directly accusing Russia of
sending the tanks but made clear he held President Vladimir Putin
responsible for failing to carry out a promise to tighten controls at
the border.
In
a sign of his concern, President Petro Poroshenko discussed the
situation with his defence and security chiefs and then told Putin by
phone that the situation was "unacceptable", his spokesman
said.
Reuters
correspondents saw two tanks in the border town of Snizhnye in east
Ukraine but said it was not clear where they had come from or whether
they had previously been used by the Russian or Ukrainian army. They
had no identifying markings to show whether they were Russian army
tanks.
"We
have observed columns passing with armoured personnel carriers, other
armoured vehicles and artillery pieces, and tanks which, according to
our information, came across the border and this morning were in
Snizhnye," Avakov told reporters in Kiev.
He
said the columns had come across the border at a checkpoint or
checkpoints seized by rebels "despite the Russian Federation's
statements that it welcomes the peace process and that the order has
been given to strengthen border controls".
One
column, Avakov said, had entered Ukraine in the Dyakove area of the
Luhansk region before moving into the neighbouring Donetsk region.
Ukrainian forces had confronted the column.
"There
is fighting going on," he said. "Part of the column has
been destroyed."
HIGH
STAKES
Russia
did not immediately respond to the accusations and it was not clear
how Putin reacted to Poroshenko by phone. His country has already
been hit by U.S. and European Union sanctions over events in Ukraine
and could face more.
Confirmation
of direct Russian involvement in the rebels' uprising would raise the
stakes in Moscow's worst standoff with the West since the Cold war
ended more than two decades ago.
The
separatists, who rose up after Poroshenko's predecessor was toppled
and fled to Russia in February, deny receiving anything but medical
supplies, food and clothing from Russia. "Russia is helping, of
course, with humanitarian aid, food, things, medicine, gear. We won't
refuse that," a rebel said. Russia has repeatedly denied
providing military support to the rebels who have taken control of
several towns and cities in east Ukraine and hope that Russia will
annexe the region, as it did the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea in
March.
Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov had earlier on Thursday repeated Moscow's view
that the onus for ending violence lay with Ukraine because it has
launched a military operation against the rebels.
But
he backed Poroshenko's efforts to push through a peace plan the
president has drawn up and discussed with Putin.
"So
far, hope remains that President Poroshenko's statements about the
end of violence will be implemented and the talks start,"
Russia's Interfax news agency quoted Lavrov as saying.
Few
details of the phone call between Putin and Poroshenko were available
but the latter's spokesman wrote on Facebook that the Ukrainian
leader put a heavy emphasis on the tank movements.
The
presidents met for 15 minutes during World War Two anniversary events
in France last week, but it was their first known conversation since
Poroshenko was sworn in on Saturday.
Poroshenko
has also been having meetings with a Russian envoy in Kiev and his
aides say progress has been made, but talks on a long-running
gas-pricing dispute have stalled.
Alexei
Miller, the chief executive of Gazprom, made clear the state-run
natural gas exporter would not extend a deadline for Kiev to pay its
huge has debts for a third time to allow more time to reach a deal at
talks.
He
said a Monday deadline would stand, and Gazprom would cut supplies to
Ukraine if it did not to pay off $1.95 billion of its gas debts by
then. Cutting supplies to Kiev could disrupt deliveries to the
European Union, which gets about a third of its gas imports from
Russia, half of them via Ukraine.
Kiev
mercenaries fire at bus with humanitarian aid near village
Semyonovka
11th June 2014, village Semenovka, Donetsk republic
Troops
of Kiev junta are real occupiers, they actions are close to actions
of NATO in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Bus
"Ikarus" carrying #humanitarian #aid for the Slavaynsk left
Donetsk at morning of 10th June. Activists of Donetsk republic
specially chosen more safe way, far from Kramators'k where there a
checkpoint of National guard of Kiev junta. That checkpoint was
attacked by fighters of Donetsk republic; mercenaries of junta
obviously would destroy humanitarian bus even, as punitive action.
The
way led through city #Artemovsk . However, instead bypasses of city,
the driver turned his bus directly at the highway Rostov-Kharkov.
This is the fastest way to #Slavyansk. Also quite safe way till
village Semenovka. But here, at the crossroad with direction to
Slavyansk road sweep through by Ukrainian troops.
The cars on the road could hit tanks by direct fire.
The cars on the road could hit tanks by direct fire.
The
humanitarian bus came under machine-gun and automatic rifle fire
before reaching the crossroad . Activists lay on the floor of bus
inside . And after waiting a short pause, they run to the trees near
road. Mercenaries of #Kiev junta continue shelling and after a while
humanitarian bus caught fire.
It
is noteworthy that on the back trip bus had to take out more than 50
children of Slavyansk. However, apparently, the mercenaries of Kiev
#junta heard nothing about the humanitarian corridors.
Activists
of Euromaidan were caught as "Russian supporters of Kiev junta".
A
video appeal in support of Kiev junta was recorded in Moscow by
unkown people who pretended to be citizen of Russia and inhabitants
of Moscow
This
video appeal ended with the fascists motto: “Glory to Ukraine!
Glory to Heroes!” [these are motto of Ukrainian nationalists,
who served to Nazi Germany.
But
at least two of these unknown people were found in a video from Kiev,
recorded at time of Euromaidan (24th November 2013 - 21th February
2014).
In
the top photo you can see these 2 women together on stage of
Euromaidan. In the bottom photo you see them in ranks of "Russians,
inhabitants of Moscow".
As
you can see, everywhere masterminds are using same script and actors,
who play role of citizen of some country.
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