Ukraine declares Russian occupation in eastern region by adopting Donbas reintegration law.

On 18 January 2018, the Ukrainian Parliament adopted important law on the deoccupation/reintegration of the temporarily occupied areas of eastern Ukraine.

The law:
– Designates Russia as an aggressor country.
– Establishes that the territories of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts uncontrolled by Kyiv are temporarily occupied by Russian-controlled regular and irregular troops.
– Sets the starting day of the occupation – February 20, 2014.
– Designates authorities ruling in the occupied territories as “occupation administration of the Russian Federation”.
– All acts issued by the occupation administration are declared null and void.
– Russia is held completely responsible for ensuring the occupied civilian population’s human rights and ensuring there are appropriate living standards.
– Russia is held responsible for the moral and material losses inflicted on Ukraine.

Here is why this law is important:
1) The “conflict” in eastern Ukraine is no longer an “anti-terrorist operation”, but a military operation on repulsing and deterring the armed aggression of Russia.
2) Direct negotiations of Ukrainian government with the “authorities” of the occupied territories, on which Russia insisted, is now declared illegal.
3) The status of temporally occupied territories implies that Ukraine cannot conduct elections of any kind there by law. Russia always insisted on “elections” to legalize the “government” of the occupied territories.
4) By declaring Russia as country-aggressor Ukraine now legally forbids participation of Russia in potential United Nations peacekeeping missions on Ukraine’s territory.
5) The law forbids amnesty of people related to the occupation administration.
Read more:
1) http://euromaidanpress.com/2018/01/18/ukraine-adopts-donbas-reintegration-bill-minsk/
2) https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/rada-adopts-controversial-donbas-reintegration-law.html
3) http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/01/ukraine-declares-russian-occupation-eastern-region-180118164950405.html

Javelins are coming. USA is sending anti-tank systems to Ukraine that Russia is so afraid of.

Deliveries of Javelin anti-tank systems would be funded by the United States, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council on 17 January 2018.

The advanced fire-and-forget portable anti-tank missile system can attack tanks from above. It also has the ability to attack low-altitude helicopters and fortifications. It was first deployed by U.S. Army units in 1996.

Last month, the U.S. State Department announced the supplies of advanced weapons to Ukraine to update Ukraine’s defense capabilities. The arsenal sale was reportedly to include Javelin anti-tank missiles, which Kiev had long desired.

Youtube bans video which compares Putin’s Russia with Hitler’s Germany.

Here we go, Youtube bans NewsFromUkraine’s video, in which historical events in present-day Russia are compared with events in Nazi Germany right before the Second World War, and disturbing similarities between the present-day Russian society and the German society of 1930’s were shown in parallel. This “forbidden” video can be watched here:
1) http://www.vimeo.com/250840317
2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtPR-Q3myp8

It all started with mass-flagging the video as containing “misleading hashtags”. Two weeks ago, a video of Putin’s main oppositioner Navalny was banned exactly in the same way by Kremlin’s troll factory:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fnavalny.com%2Fp%2F5687%2F%3Futm_source%3Dpush%26utm_medium%3Dblog%26utm_campaign%3Dpush_5687&edit-text=&act=url

The army of Kremlin trolls also used the same technique of false flagging to block Ukrainian groups on Facebook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oab_8gjvHBY&t=30s

However, Youtube volunteered to use “misleading hashtags” “complaint” to escalate it to “hate speech” complaint. NewsFromUkraine was informed that the video would be banned in European countries and territories, however, it is currently banned worldwide.

Russia sentences Ukrainian to 3.5 years for installing Ukrainian flag in the occupied Crimea.

On January 16, 2018, Ukrainian patriot Vladimir Balukh was sentenced to 3 years and 7 months by the Russian occupation government of Crimea. The problem was that he put Ukrainian flag on the roof of his house.

At first, Russian occupiers tried to charge him with stealing, but failed. Then, they planted fake evidence in his house: ammunition and explosives – favorite fake evidences of Russian police. The latter became official reason for his sentence.

Isn’t it beyond human understanding that a foreign government sues Ukrainian citizen on Ukrainian territory for putting Ukrainian flag on his own house?

Video with vanishing car and people was used by Russia as evidence of killing Khmeimim attackers.

On January 12, 2018, Russian ministry of defence released a video “evidence”, which, as Russians claim, shows the moment of elimination of those who attacked Russia’s Khmeimim airbase on December 31, 2017:
https://vk.com/wall-133441491_121456
On the 6-th second of the video a car randomly jumps by few meters and the “attackers” disappear right before the explosion, which indicates that the video was montaged.

It is remarkable that the quality of Russian fakes has considerably degraded: in November 2017 they provided a screenshot from videogame as “irrefutable proof” of US cooperating with ISIS:

In June 2017 Putin demostrated a video of US operation in Afghanistan as Russian operation in Syria:

Attack on Russian Khmeimim airbase in Syria on December 31, 2017:
https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=eSOP0tR6Gz0

Second attack of the undead on the Russian Khmeimim airbase in Syria. Now with drones.

The airfield of the Russian airbase Khmeimim in the Syrian province of Latakia was attacked by unmanned aerial vehicles of unknown origin.

Unidentified drones flew over the Russian air base on the evening of January 6, 2017. The security system reacted and launched sirens. The Russian side fired at drones.

On the sounds of shooting, explosions and sirens and the likely injuries of the Russian military it was reported on Twitter by Syrian journalist Kevork Almassian.

There is still no official commentary from the Russian Defense Ministry.

Risen-from-the-dead attacked Russian airbase in Syria exposing Putin’s lie.

On December 6, 2017, Putin announced his “surprising” decision to participate in the coming 2018 Russian presidential “elections”.

On the same day, Kremlin declared “complete victory” over “terrorism” in Syria. It is not clear what terrorism was implied, since in Syria Russia was mainly fighting with anti-Assad opposition forces calling them “terrorists”.

Putin desperately needed some victory to formally justify to Russians why the loser who has brought Russia to international isolation and economic recession, disgraced Russian sport and started several wars in which Russians die sneakily and disgracefully, wants to become president for the 4-th time.

And just 3 weeks later, on December 31, 2017, “terrorists” who obviously rose from the dead since Putin has killed all of them, attacked Russia’s Khmeimim airbase destroying 7 to 9 fighter jets and killing at least 2 Russian soldiers. This became the biggest single Russian military loss since the Russian intervention in Syria in 2015, and turned Putin’s “victory” in Syria into a shameful farce.

Suggested videos:
1) Second attack on Khmeimim airbase on January 6, 2018:

2) How Putin lied about Russian operation in Syria:

Russia’s denials are not credible anymore, – Trump’s national security adviser McMaster.

McMaster, U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser said that “insidious is the right word” to describe Russia’s actions.

He said the Russians “are the same people” who denied they shot down Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 and “murdered” 298 people, that “they have soldiers in Crimea or eastern Ukraine,” or that they are providing cover for the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad and his alleged use of chemical weapons.

“[The denials are] just not credible anymore,” he said. “So, what we need to do, I think, with Russia is confront their destabilization behavior. As I mentioned, pull the curtain back on it.”

Biggest swap of POWs: 74 Ukrainians for 306 terrorists. 69 terrorists refused to return back.

In the biggest exchange of prisoners since the war in eastern Ukraine began in 2014, officials said 237 terrorists held by the Ukrainian government were handed over to terrorist-controlled areas of Luhansk and Dontesk on December 27, while 74 captured Ukrainian soldiers and civilians were released by the terrorists into government hands.

It is interesting that 69 out of 306 terrorists refused to return back to the Russian-occupied territories. 43 of them have served their terms in prison in Ukraine and did not come to the exchange. The remaining 26 terrorists who are still sitting in Ukrainian prisons decided to stay in prison rather than to return back to Mordor. Representatives from the International Committee of the Red Cross had a chance to speak with each of the terrorists and they confirmed their decision not to return back to the land of Russian freedom, peace and stability.

Ukraine arrests Russian spy in the government’s secretariat who attended high-level meetings.

An interpreter for Ukraine’s prime minister has been arrested on suspicion of working as a Russian spy. Ukraine’s SBU security service arrested Stanislav Yezhov on December 20, 2017, in the capital, Kiev. Yezhov had worked “for the enemy state [Russia] for a long time,” – the prime minister, Volodymyr Groysman, declared on his Facebook page.

Yezhov was based inside the cabinet of ministers and had regular high-level access to sensitive information. He travelled on high-profile trips to the west, including to London and Washington.