President Petro Poroshenko held an emergency meeting of his security chiefs after a weekend of Ukrainian air strikes on rebel positions near the border with Russia and charges by Moscow that Kiev killed a Russian man with a cross-border shell.
"Information has ... been confirmed that Russian staff officers are taking part in military operations against Ukrainian forces," Poroshenko said.
Poroshenko made similar complaints of Russian incursions on Sunday to the European Union with an eye to pushing the bloc to exert greater pressure, and possibly more sanctions, on Moscow.
Poroshenko told his security chiefs that government forces, which suffered the loss of 23 servicemen in a rocket attack on an army camp last Friday, were now facing a new Russian missile system and there would have to be a change in tactics. He gave no details.
Accusing Russia of embarking on a course of escalation in Ukraine's eastern regions, National and Security Council spokesman Andriy Lysenko told journalists:
"In the past 24 hours, deployment of (Russian) units and military equipment across the border from the Sumy and Luhansk border points was noticed. The Russian Federation continues to build up troops on the border."
Moscow's response to the cross-border shelling and the Ukrainian reports of Russian troops being moved up to the border raised again the prospect of Russian intervention, after weeks in which President Vladimir Putin had appeared intent on disengaging, pulling back tens of thousands of troops he had massed at the frontier.
MILITARY SUCCESS
The Ukrainian army said it had achieved a notable success by breaking a rebel encirclement of Luhansk airport on Sunday night. A spokesman for the so-called Luhansk People's Republic said that 30 volunteer fighters had been killed in Ukrainian fire on Oleksandrivka, a village to the east of the town, Russia's Interfax news agency said.
As military action continued on Monday near the rebel-controlled border town of Luhansk, security officials said contact had been lost with a government AN-26 military transport plane over the Luhansk region.......................http://www.todayonline.com/world/russian-military-officers-are-taking-part-ukraine-combat-poroshenko?singlepage=true
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A Ukrainian military transport aircraft has been shot down in the east, amid fighting with pro-Russian separatist rebels, Ukrainian officials say...
ReplyDeleteThey say the An-26 plane was hit at an altitude of 6,500m (21,325ft).
The plane was targeted with "a more powerful missile" than a shoulder-carried missile, "probably fired" from Russia. The crew survived, reports say.
Russia has made no comment. Separately, Nato reported a Russian troop build-up near the Ukraine border.
A Nato official confirmed to the BBC that the alliance had observed a significant increase of Russian troops, bringing their number to up to 12,000.
Russia denies supporting and arming the separatists, and has invited officials from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to monitor its border with Ukraine..............http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28299334
14/7/14
Un avion ukrainien abattu par des tirs venant de Russie, selon l'Ukraine...
ReplyDeleteAlors que la présidence ukrainienne a annoncé avoir "débloqué", après des combats, l'aéroport de Lougansk, l'une des grandes villes de l'est du pays tenue par les séparatistes prorusses, la Russie évoque de possibles "frappes ciblées" en Ukraine. Une réaction à la chute d'un obus dans une ville russe frontalière qui a fait un mort, a indiqué lundi le journal russe Kommersant, citant une source proche du Kremlin. Lundi, un avion ukrainien a été abattu, tandis que l'Otan dénonce un renforcement des troupes russes à la frontière...
Les tirs qui ont abattu lundi un avion de transport militaire ukrainien provenaient "vraisemblablement" de Russie, a annoncé la présidence ukrainienne citant le ministre de la Défense.
L'équipage de l'appareil a établi un contact avec l'état-major ukrainien, a ajouté la présidence dans un communiqué, confirmant indirectement des indications de source rebelle, selon lesquelles des parachutes ont été vus dans le ciel après la chute de l'avion AN-26 dans la région de Lougansk, dans l'est de l'Ukraine.
"Compte tenu du fait que l'avion volait à une altitude de 6500 mètres, il était impossible qu'il ait été touché par des tirs de missiles sol-air portables, ce qui signifie qu'il a été abattu par un missile d'un autre type, plus puissant, qui a été utilisé, vraisemblablement, à partir du territoire de la Fédération de Russie".
Ces informations ont été communiquées au président Petro Porochenko par son ministre de la Défense Valeriï Gueleteï pendant un entretien téléphonique.
Une opération de recherche est actuellement en cours pour ramener l'équipage de l'appareil en territoire contrôlé par les forces ukrainiennes..................http://www.rtbf.be/info/monde/detail_kiev-controle-a-nouveau-l-aeroport-de-lougansk?id=8314923
14/7/14
Militiamen of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) brought down a military transport Antonov-26 (An-26) plane of the Ukrainian Air Force on the outskirts of the town of Torez, eyewitnesses said....
ReplyDeleteA missile hit the An-26, it fell on the ground and caught blaze, they said.
On July 14, militiamen of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic downed another An-26 of the Ukrainian Air Force.
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