« Il se trouve entre les villes d’Enakievo et de Makeïevka », précise le siège de la milice, ajoutant que la recherche du pilote a été lancée.
L’avion d’assaut a été abattu dans la soirée du 2 août, mais les miliciens l’ont trouvé ce dimanche.
Fin juillet, la milice populaire a abattu deux avions militaires ukrainiens Su-25...........[La Voix de la Russie]
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Army 'heading for victory' - defence minister...
ReplyDeleteUkraine's defence minister has said his forces are gaining ground significantly against rebels in the country's east.
Valeriy Heletey told the BBC there would be victory "very soon".
He blamed the rebels for the difficulties faced by international experts in getting access to the MH17 crash site.
His remarks came as civilians in the east prepare for a siege as government forces close in on the rebel-held cities of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Residents are stockpiling food and supplies and are sleeping in basements, with reports suggesting Luhansk is virtually surrounded and without power.
At least nine civilians were reported killed in Donetsk and Luhansk on Saturday.
The region has been unstable since April, when rebels in the east declared independence from Kiev. More than 1,500 people are believed to have been killed since fighting began.................http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28632292
4/8/14
NATO’s top commander has become entertaining the idea of a regional headquarters specifically focusing on Article 5 violations – which requires members to come to the aid of another member if it is attacked – ahead of an alliance gathering in Wales...
ReplyDelete“Right now, I think the nations agree that we have the force structure we need. We just need to adapt it. For over 12 years, we have been fighting very successfully together in Afghanistan. We focused on the counter-insurgency fight. And now as the mission changes to resolute support, it is time for the existing force structure to begin to train for more Article 5 kinds of defense missions,” Turkey SACEUR Gen. Philip Breedlove told CNNTürk and that Hürriyet Daily News during a visit to U.S. troops based in Gaziantep, adding that the alliance’s military wing was looking into a broad set of measures to make NATO more responsive to threats from Russia.
“Right now, our Reaction Force does exactly what we ask it to do, and it does it very well. But the new threat we see from Russia requires that we increase its responsiveness. We will look to pick some headquarters to be focused on these missions and that will be a political decision,” Breedlove said. “It may be that we may need HQ in the north, in the center and in the south, these will all be looked at. But the most important thing is we will all look into measures to make NATO more responsive to crisis such as the ones in Crimea, in Ukraine, et cetera.”
While the alliance is debating among its members measures to dedicate more financial and human resources to the capabilities, Breedlove said he would not specifically ask for an increased military posture, or more special forces capability.
Retired Adm. James Stavridis, the former SACEUR now at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, said in an op-ed in June that NATO members needed to prepare more special forces for threats coming from the southern border of the alliance, especially Iraq and Syria, and to deter Russia.
NATO sources are not ruling out Turkey’s possibility of hosting one of the regional headquarters focusing on Article 5 violations, but Poland is lobbying actively to be the front runner.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/crisis-in-ukraine-many-convince-nato-on-regional-hqs.aspx?pageID=238&nID=69927&NewsCatID=359
4/8/14
Water, electricity supplies cut in Luhansk.......
ReplyDeleteArtillery strikes have left the conflict-torn east Ukrainian city of Luhansk without electricity, water supply and telephone communications, the city council said on Monday.
“Residential areas and infrastructure facilities have been under heavy artillery fire since morning,” the council said adding that daily updates on the situation in Lugansk will be posted on its website.
http://en.itar-tass.com/world/743427
4/8/14
Over 700 Ukrainian government troops have surrendered to the local militias in the eastern Donetsk region, the Novorossiya news agency said on Monday....
ReplyDelete“There is a message from the militiamen that 702 members of the Ukrainian army have surrendered in Shakhtersk, which is being held by joint militia forces,” the agency said, quoting one of the militia commanders as saying.
This information could not be confirmed from other sources.
Militiamen also said that they had used heavy weapons against the government troops twice during the day.
http://en.itar-tass.com/world/743514
4/8/14