July 21, 2014

20/07/2014 Daily Highlights by “Digests & Analytics Ukraine” News Agency

Terrorists do not allow international experts to access the crash site in the Donbass

Ukraine

  • Chairman of the Odessa Regional State Administration Palica reported on Facebook, that multibillionaire Akhmetov refused to provide aid to Donetsk refugees.

Malaysian airlines flight catastrophe

  • During teleconference with Australian Prime Minister Abbott President of Ukraine Poroshenko said that international police mission would be of great help in the investigation of the crash of a Malaysian Airlines airplane, as well as ensure that dead bodies will not be sneered by marauding militias.
  • Chairman of the State Investigation Commission Groisman stressed that safety of international experts at the crash site couldn’t be guaranteed, as the crash site is controlled by armed terrorists. Therefore each country should decide to send the experts on their own risk. 251 bodies and 86 fragments of bodies have been found as of Sunday, 20 of July at the crash site.

War in Ukraine

  • Advisor to the President of Ukraine, Lutsenko stated in the live TV interview to the TSN, that few days ago Ukraine was on the verge of full-scale war with Russia, despite the fact that balance of armed forces and military equipment of Ukraine vs Russia is one to ten. Russia hereby provokes Ukraine to declare war, to which the later is not ready.
  • Mass burial place of civilians with signs of tortures have been found in Slovyansk, as well as witness of the incident exist, as reported by Lutsenko, Advisor to the President of Ukraine in a TV interview to TSN.
  • Ukrainian military took control of the Yubileynyj town in proximity to Luhansk, surrounded Rubezhnoye and prevented breakthrough of the armored vehicles column from Lysychansk where, as a result of battle, 23 Russian citizen have been taken as prisoners of war.
  • State Border Service of Ukraine reported increasing number of troops and armored vehicles on the Russian border with Ukraine - in Bryansk and Rostov regions, as well as in the occupied part of Kherson region.
  • Ukrainian military in Donetsk region were shelled with mortars and small arms from Russia, up to 4 times during the day.
  • 396 people, including three journalists, are imprisoned by terrorists - according to Lysenko, Information Center Advisor of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

International

  • U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry stated live on CNN, that United States are sure that Malaysian Airlines plane have been shot down by terrorists, with anti-aircraft missile systems "Buk" provided by Russia, as well as confirmed absence of such equipment from Ukrainian troops in the area.
  • Press office of the UK government announced that their firm protest of Russian blocking of UN Security Council resolution on experts access to the crash site of Malaysian airliner, despite having all possibilities to influence the militants who committed this act of terrorism. British Prime Minister Cameron, in a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, stated that Russia should provide convincing evidence of innocence, "if later wants to put the blame on others."
  • US Helsinki Commission urged to recognize self-proclaimed DPR and LPR republics as terrorist organizations, and Russia as sponsor of terrorism.
  • Following the teleconference between the leaders of Germany, France and the UK, it was stated that Russia has time until Tuesday 22.07 to provide access for international investigators to the crash site, otherwise Council of Europe will make its own conclusions and "determine the consequences" of such inaction.

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